AI helps assess patient s risk of regenerative outcomes after treatment of peri-implantitis
Peri-implantitis, a condition where tissue and bone around dental implants becomes infected, besets roughly one-quarter of dental implant patients, and currently there s no reliable way to assess how patients will respond to treatment of this condition.
To that end, a team led by the University of Michigan School of Dentistry developed a machine learning algorithm, a form of artificial intelligence, to assess an individual patient s risk of regenerative outcomes after surgical treatments of peri-implantitis.
The algorithm is called FARDEEP, which stands for Fast and Robust Deconvolution of Expression Profiles. In the study, researchers used FARDEEP to analyze tissue samples from a group of patients with peri-implantitis who were receiving reconstructive therapy. They quantified the abundance of harmful bacteria and certain infection fighting immune cells in each sample.
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Peri-implantitis, a condition where tissue and bone around dental implants becomes infected, besets roughly one-quarter of dental implant patients, and currently there s no reliable way to assess how patients will respond to treatment of this condition.
To that end, a team led by the University of Michigan School of Dentistry developed a machine learning algorithm, a form of artificial intelligence, to assess an individual patient s risk of regenerative outcomes after surgical treatments of peri-implantitis.
The algorithm is called FARDEEP, which stands for Fast and Robust Deconvolution of Expression Profiles. In the study, researchers used FARDEEP to analyze tissue samples from a group of patients with peri-implantitis who were receiving reconstructive therapy. They quantified the abundance of harmful bacteria and certain infection fighting immune cells in each sample.
by jiyeon kim
Last summer, as the global pandemic raged through Los Angeles, I decided to sort through boxes in my attic. Among the mementos I stumbled across were twenty issues of
The Weekly Murmur: Tracings of Student Life, a newsletter published at HMS from October 2003 to April 2004. Reading them, I was touched, delighted, and amused; the articles were informal snapshots of my HMS and Harvard School of Dental Medicine classmates and captured our last year together prior to scattering to our clinical clerkships. As far as I know, the cache I found is the only remaining physical copy of this series, and I suspect my chief reason for saving them from the recycling bin was my nostalgic attachment as the publication’s editor-in-chief.
You need much bigger teeth to sustain you as an adult, so everyone gets a second set.
If you ve been told you re not a candidate for dental implants, it s time to revisit the subject. Dental implants â permanent prosthetics implanted into the jaw â have changed. In the last five years, we ve learned that smaller implants can work just as well as regular-size implants, and this makes more people candidates for them, says Dr. German Gallucci, department chair of restorative dentistry at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
What is a regular-size implant?
A conventional dental implant is a post that serves as an artificial tooth root. The post is made of titanium and is surgically implanted into the jawbone, below the gum line. As the jaw heals, bone grows over the surface of the post, strengthening its position.
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