AI for Dentists 2026: Overjet, Pearl & Dentrix Ascend Workflows
Discover how AI for dentists actually works in 2026: FDA-cleared Overjet and Pearl caries detection, Dentrix Ascend integration, and the workflows driving...
Chapter 1: The 2026 Dental AI Landscape: Why Now, and What Actually Changed If you owned a dental practice in 2020 and someone pitched you "AI for dentists," the honest answer was: not yet. The software was a demo. The FDA hadn't cleared much of anything. Your PMS couldn't talk to it. And your insurance carriers didn't care what a neural network thought about a bitewing. Six years later, every one of those objections has collapsed. Dental AI in 2026 isn't a pilot program you volunteer for — it's increasingly the substrate your practice runs on, whether you chose it...