Will AI Replace Dental Hygienists?

Record and review patient medical histories.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Feel and visually examine gums for sores and signs of disease.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Examine gums, using probes, to locate periodontal recessed gums and signs of gum disease.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Clean calcareous deposits, accretions, and stains from teeth and beneath margins of gums, using dental instruments.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Provide clinical services or health education to improve and maintain the oral health of patients or the general public.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Chart conditions of decay and disease for diagnosis and treatment by dentist.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Expose and develop x-ray film.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Attend continuing education courses to maintain or update skills.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Apply fluorides or other cavity preventing agents to arrest dental decay.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Maintain dental equipment and sharpen and sterilize dental instruments.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Maintain patient recall system.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Feel lymph nodes under patient's chin to detect swelling or tenderness that could indicate presence of oral cancer.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Administer local anesthetic agents.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Remove excess cement from coronal surfaces of teeth.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Conduct dental health clinics for community groups to augment services of dentist.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Make impressions for study casts.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.