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Purpose: This study investigated knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions regarding the future of artificial intelligence (AI) for radiological diagnosis among dental specialists in central India. Materials and Methods: An online survey was conducted consisting of 15 closed-ended questions using Google Forms and circulated among dental professionals in central India. The survey consisted of questions regarding participants' recognition of and attitudes toward AI, their opinions on directions of AI development, and their perceptions regarding the future of AI in oral radiology. Results: Of the 250 participating dentists, 68% were already familiar with the concept of AI, 69% agreed that they expect to use AI for making dental diagnoses, 51% agreed that the major function of AI would be the interpretation of complicated radiographic scans, and 63% agreed that AI would have a future in India. Conclusion: This study concluded that dental specialists were well aware of the concept of AI, that AI programs could be used as an adjunctive tool by dentists to increasing their diagnostic precision when interpreting radiographs, and that AI has a promising role in radiological diagnosis.

Objective To evaluate the utility of the X-ray attenuation coefficient as a measure for quantifying the radiopacity of restorative resins at different exposure times and film speeds. Materials and methods Five restorative resins were made into disks, measuring 10 mm in diameter with thicknesses of 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, and 2.5 mm. These resin disks, an aluminum step wedge, and a lead disk were placed on size 4 Ultraspeed Ò D and Insight Ò E/F films. X-ray parameters were 65 kVp, 10 mA, and 30-cm focus-to-film distance. Exposure times were 0.3, 0.15, and 0.10 s for the D-speed films and 0.15, 0.10, and 0.05 s for the E/F-speed films. At each exposure setting, three D-and E/F-speed films were exposed and processed immediately with an automatic processor. The optical density was measured with a transmission densitometer. The net optical density (D) was used to calculate the linear attenuation coefficients (l) using lnD = -lx ? lnD 0 , where D and D 0 denote the optical density of the specimen and background, respectively. Results The linear attenuation coefficients (mm -1 ) of the five restorative resins were 0.24-0.27 for Sorare Ò , 0.30-0.34 for Estelite Ò , 0.36-0.39 for Gradia Ò , 0.51-0.54 for Clearfil AP-X Ò , and 0.52-0.56 for Beautifil Ò . These were all higher than that of dentin (0.15-0.19). There was no significant difference in the attenuation coefficients at different exposure times or film speeds. Conclusions Attenuation coefficients can be used instead of aluminum wedges of equivalent thickness to quantify the radiopacity of restorative resins.

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the characteristics of an optically stimulated luminescence dosemeter (OSLD) for use in diagnostic radiology and to apply the OSLD in measuring the organ doses by panoramic radiography. Methods: The dose linearity, energy dependency and angular dependency of aluminium oxide-based OSLDs were examined using an X-ray generator to simulate various exposure settings in diagnostic radiology. The organ doses were then measured by inserting the dosemeters into an anthropomorphic phantom while using three panoramic machines. Results: The dosemeters demonstrated consistent dose linearity (coefficient of variation , 1.5%) and no significant energy dependency (coefficient of variation , 1.5%) under the applied exposure conditions. They also exhibited negligible angular dependency (# 10%). The organ doses of the X-ray as a result of panoramic imaging by three machines were calculated using the dosemeters. Conclusion: OSLDs can be utilized to measure the organ doses in diagnostic radiology. The availability of these dosemeters in strip form proves to be reliably advantageous.

The sense of taste is among the regulatory mechanism for acceptance or rejection of foods. In oral submucous fibrosis (OSMF) patients, impairment of taste sensation has not received much attention, owing to limited research work in the field. This study was conducted to analyze the taste impairment in OSMF patients by using four basic tastes: Sweet, sour, salty and bitter, among a group of 30 subjects by using physiological taste stimuli tastants. In OSMF, significant taste alteration was found with sweet followed by salt, bitter and sour.

Significant dose reduction by lowering mA can be utilized for pre-surgical implant planning in multi-detector CT.

Impacted teeth are teeth which remain embedded in the jaws past their normal eruption time or which have been blocked from their normal eruption path because of crowding of adjacent teeth or lack of enough jaw size to accommodate their eruption. Impacted teeth can cause a number of problems if left in place. Dermatoglyphics is the study of skin patterns and finger ridges that present on the fingers, toes and the soles. Fingerprint patterns of both hands were analyzed among ten patients with impacted teeth seen clinically and radiographically and equal number of healthy subjects. This study showed that tented arch pattern in index fingers of both the hands has been observed in impacted subjects thus serving as an indicator of genetic susceptibility in the incidence of dental impaction.