{"id":4,"date":"2024-09-26T12:44:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T09:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogi.savonia.fi\/eerikakorhonen\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2024-10-22T10:54:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T07:54:09","slug":"digi-society","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogi.savonia.fi\/eerikakorhonen\/digi-society\/","title":{"rendered":"DIGI SOCIETY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Digital dentistry&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My&nbsp;professional&nbsp;journey&nbsp;has&nbsp;always&nbsp;had&nbsp;a&nbsp;big&nbsp;focus&nbsp;in&nbsp;digital&nbsp;transformation in dentistry. My&nbsp;background&nbsp;education&nbsp;is a dental&nbsp;technician&nbsp;and I&nbsp;have&nbsp;been&nbsp;part&nbsp;of the&nbsp;digital&nbsp;processes&nbsp;that&nbsp;dental&nbsp;labs&nbsp;and&nbsp;clinics&nbsp;have&nbsp;been&nbsp;going&nbsp;through&nbsp;the&nbsp;recent&nbsp;years.&nbsp;Dental&nbsp;laboratories&nbsp;have&nbsp;actually&nbsp;had&nbsp;digital&nbsp;solutions&nbsp;for&nbsp;prosthetics&nbsp;now&nbsp;already&nbsp;more&nbsp;than&nbsp;40&nbsp;years.&nbsp;My&nbsp;own&nbsp;professional&nbsp;career&nbsp;started 14&nbsp;years&nbsp;ago when&nbsp;dental&nbsp;laboratories in Finland started&nbsp;to&nbsp;make more&nbsp;use&nbsp;of&nbsp;computer&nbsp;aided&nbsp;design and&nbsp;manufacturing. I&nbsp;was&nbsp;working&nbsp;for a&nbsp;reseller&nbsp;that&nbsp;sold&nbsp;scanners&nbsp;and design&nbsp;software&nbsp;for&nbsp;dental&nbsp;laboratories&nbsp;in&nbsp;order&nbsp;to&nbsp;produce&nbsp;dental&nbsp;crowns&nbsp;and&nbsp;bridges&nbsp;digitally. At&nbsp;that&nbsp;time, it&nbsp;was&nbsp;not&nbsp;that&nbsp;common&nbsp;to&nbsp;have&nbsp;a CAD\/CAM&nbsp;solution&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;dental&nbsp;laboratory&nbsp;compared&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;present&nbsp;where&nbsp;all&nbsp;labs&nbsp;have&nbsp;a&nbsp;system&nbsp;in&nbsp;their&nbsp;hands.&nbsp;There&nbsp;are&nbsp;actually&nbsp;already&nbsp;some&nbsp;labs&nbsp;in Finland&nbsp;that&nbsp;are&nbsp;totally&nbsp;digital&nbsp;meaning&nbsp;they&nbsp;are&nbsp;doing&nbsp;all&nbsp;their&nbsp;work&nbsp;with&nbsp;digital&nbsp;devices.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nowadays&nbsp;almost&nbsp;all&nbsp;indications&nbsp;of&nbsp;dental&nbsp;prosthetics&nbsp;can&nbsp;be&nbsp;made&nbsp;digitally, and no&nbsp;one&nbsp;wants&nbsp;to go&nbsp;back&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;analog&nbsp;way&nbsp;of&nbsp;working.&nbsp;Processes&nbsp;are&nbsp;more&nbsp;predictable,&nbsp;faster&nbsp;and&nbsp;more&nbsp;accurate&nbsp;than&nbsp;before.&nbsp;The&nbsp;use&nbsp;of&nbsp;in-house production with the help of 3D printers&nbsp;and milling units is a normal way of working right now. &nbsp;In-house&nbsp;production&nbsp;has&nbsp;enabled more faster delivery&nbsp;times&nbsp;and&nbsp;a big variety of materials&nbsp;that&nbsp;can&nbsp;be&nbsp;used&nbsp;to&nbsp;produce&nbsp;the&nbsp;restorations. In&nbsp;dental&nbsp;clinics&nbsp;digitalization means for&nbsp;example, taking&nbsp;a&nbsp;traditional&nbsp;impression of&nbsp;the&nbsp;patient\u2019s&nbsp;teeth&nbsp;in a&nbsp;digital&nbsp;way&nbsp;with&nbsp;an&nbsp;intraoral&nbsp;scanner.&nbsp;The&nbsp;digital&nbsp;impression is&nbsp;only&nbsp;the&nbsp;beginning&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;possibilities&nbsp;to&nbsp;create&nbsp;treatment&nbsp;for&nbsp;the&nbsp;patient&nbsp;for&nbsp;prosthetics,&nbsp;preventive&nbsp;care,&nbsp;orthodontics&nbsp;and&nbsp;much&nbsp;more. It is&nbsp;common&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;digital&nbsp;dental&nbsp;clinic&nbsp;to&nbsp;create&nbsp;a&nbsp;digital&nbsp;patient&nbsp;by&nbsp;creating&nbsp;a&nbsp;database&nbsp;of&nbsp;all&nbsp;records&nbsp;in&nbsp;digital&nbsp;form.&nbsp;This&nbsp;can&nbsp;include&nbsp;digital&nbsp;impressions, CBCT&nbsp;images&nbsp;and&nbsp;face&nbsp;images&nbsp;all&nbsp;aligned&nbsp;together&nbsp;to&nbsp;get&nbsp;a&nbsp;total&nbsp;3D&nbsp;view&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;patient.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&nbsp;can&nbsp;see&nbsp;that&nbsp;the&nbsp;digital&nbsp;way&nbsp;has&nbsp;improved&nbsp;tremendously&nbsp;all&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;processes&nbsp;from&nbsp;all&nbsp;aspects.&nbsp;The&nbsp;benefits&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;digital&nbsp;way&nbsp;can&nbsp;be&nbsp;felt&nbsp;from&nbsp;all&nbsp;parties&nbsp;of&nbsp;the entire&nbsp;treatment&nbsp;team, the&nbsp;patient,&nbsp;the&nbsp;dentist&nbsp;and&nbsp;the&nbsp;lab. In&nbsp;the&nbsp;future&nbsp;this&nbsp;development&nbsp;will&nbsp;continue, and&nbsp;the&nbsp;digital&nbsp;processes&nbsp;will&nbsp;evolve&nbsp;even&nbsp;further.&nbsp;There&nbsp;will&nbsp;be&nbsp;fewer dental&nbsp;professional&nbsp;and&nbsp;skilled&nbsp;dental&nbsp;technicians&nbsp;and&nbsp;dentists available&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;future.&nbsp;Patients&nbsp;will&nbsp;still&nbsp;need&nbsp;to&nbsp;be&nbsp;treated&nbsp;efficiently, and&nbsp;digital&nbsp;ways&nbsp;can&nbsp;help&nbsp;he of help here.&nbsp;The&nbsp;digital&nbsp;way&nbsp;will&nbsp;also&nbsp;hopefully&nbsp;attract&nbsp;more&nbsp;young&nbsp;people&nbsp;to join&nbsp;the&nbsp;interesting&nbsp;world&nbsp;of&nbsp;dentistry.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Open&nbsp;society&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&nbsp;can&nbsp;see&nbsp;that&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;future amongst&nbsp;dentistry&nbsp;AI and&nbsp;cloud&nbsp;platforms&nbsp;will&nbsp;be&nbsp;used&nbsp;in an expanding level.&nbsp;Parts of the dental work can be done&nbsp;anywhere in&nbsp;the&nbsp;world, and&nbsp;this&nbsp;creates&nbsp;some&nbsp;aspects&nbsp;that&nbsp;need&nbsp;to&nbsp;be&nbsp;carefully&nbsp;thought of. General Data&nbsp;Protection&nbsp;Regulation&nbsp;defines&nbsp;the&nbsp;use&nbsp;of personal data for EU&nbsp;citizens&nbsp;and&nbsp;applies&nbsp;to&nbsp;also organzations&nbsp;outside&nbsp;the&nbsp;EU&nbsp;that&nbsp;handle&nbsp;data of EU&nbsp;citizens.&nbsp;When&nbsp;handling&nbsp;data, for example in&nbsp;the&nbsp;cloud, personal data&nbsp;has&nbsp;to&nbsp;be&nbsp;handled&nbsp;under GDPR.&nbsp;Dental&nbsp;records&nbsp;are&nbsp;sensitive&nbsp;patient&nbsp;data, and all&nbsp;patient&nbsp;data&nbsp;needs&nbsp;to&nbsp;be&nbsp;taken&nbsp;seriously and&nbsp;all&nbsp;parties&nbsp;of&nbsp;society&nbsp;need to&nbsp;be&nbsp;aware&nbsp;and concerned of&nbsp;this.&nbsp;Everyone plays a role in keeping patient data secure. This includes the&nbsp;ones&nbsp;developing&nbsp;the&nbsp;digital&nbsp;systems, governments, legislators,&nbsp;the&nbsp;users&nbsp;of&nbsp;these&nbsp;systems&nbsp;and in&nbsp;the&nbsp;end&nbsp;also&nbsp;every one&nbsp;of us as&nbsp;patients. We&nbsp;all&nbsp;need&nbsp;to&nbsp;be&nbsp;awake&nbsp;and&nbsp;alert&nbsp;that&nbsp;the&nbsp;information&nbsp;we&nbsp;want&nbsp;to&nbsp;keep&nbsp;in&nbsp;private&nbsp;stays&nbsp;private&nbsp;in&nbsp;this&nbsp;all&nbsp;the&nbsp;time&nbsp;developing&nbsp;digital&nbsp;world.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;amount&nbsp;of data&nbsp;created&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;digital&nbsp;world&nbsp;creates&nbsp;the&nbsp;dilemma of&nbsp;how&nbsp;to&nbsp;use&nbsp;the&nbsp;data in a&nbsp;secure&nbsp;and&nbsp;efficient&nbsp;way.&nbsp;This&nbsp;creates&nbsp;demanding&nbsp;decisions&nbsp;for&nbsp;governments&nbsp;to&nbsp;enable on the&nbsp;other&nbsp;hand&nbsp;the&nbsp;use&nbsp;of for example cloud&nbsp;platforms&nbsp;but&nbsp;on&nbsp;the&nbsp;other&nbsp;hand&nbsp;also&nbsp;efficient&nbsp;data&nbsp;security&nbsp;measures globally and nationally.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chat GPT&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve&nbsp;asked&nbsp;ChatGPT&nbsp;What&nbsp;is&nbsp;digital&nbsp;dentistry&nbsp;and is&nbsp;cloud&nbsp;computing&nbsp;safe&nbsp;in&nbsp;digital&nbsp;dentistry.&nbsp;ChatGPT could&nbsp;answer&nbsp;pretty&nbsp;thoroughly&nbsp;on&nbsp;the&nbsp;topics. It&nbsp;could&nbsp;briefly&nbsp;explain&nbsp;the&nbsp;benefits&nbsp;and&nbsp;different&nbsp;areas&nbsp;involved&nbsp;in&nbsp;digital&nbsp;dentistry.&nbsp;About&nbsp;cloud&nbsp;computing&nbsp;safety&nbsp;I&nbsp;was&nbsp;happy&nbsp;to&nbsp;see&nbsp;a&nbsp;very&nbsp;good&nbsp;answer&nbsp;considering the most important points about cloud databases.&nbsp;I&nbsp;can&nbsp;see&nbsp;AI as a tool&nbsp;that&nbsp;can&nbsp;help us&nbsp;in going&nbsp;towards the&nbsp;right&nbsp;direction&nbsp;and&nbsp;in assisting personnel&nbsp;in&nbsp;dentistry. AI&nbsp;cannot&nbsp;replace&nbsp;all&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;tasks&nbsp;and&nbsp;cannot&nbsp;make&nbsp;full&nbsp;decisions&nbsp;about&nbsp;patients,&nbsp;so&nbsp;in&nbsp;this&nbsp;we&nbsp;will&nbsp;always&nbsp;need&nbsp;human&nbsp;intervention and&nbsp;decision&nbsp;making&nbsp;to&nbsp;proof&nbsp;that&nbsp;AI&nbsp;can&nbsp;make the&nbsp;right&nbsp;consumptions.&nbsp;Any&nbsp;regular&nbsp;routine&nbsp;measures&nbsp;should&nbsp;definitely be&nbsp;made AI&nbsp;based&nbsp;as&nbsp;this&nbsp;can&nbsp;speed&nbsp;up&nbsp;the&nbsp;processes&nbsp;and, in some&nbsp;cases&nbsp;also&nbsp;make&nbsp;the&nbsp;decisions&nbsp;more&nbsp;accurate&nbsp;(especially&nbsp;if&nbsp;we&nbsp;need&nbsp;to&nbsp;process&nbsp;a&nbsp;big&nbsp;amount&nbsp;of data in&nbsp;order&nbsp;to&nbsp;make&nbsp;a&nbsp;decision).&nbsp;The&nbsp;good&nbsp;thing&nbsp;with&nbsp;AI is&nbsp;that&nbsp;it&nbsp;evolves&nbsp;and&nbsp;gets&nbsp;better&nbsp;all&nbsp;the&nbsp;time. Learning is&nbsp;never&nbsp;ending&nbsp;and&nbsp;that&nbsp;is&nbsp;the&nbsp;key&nbsp;to&nbsp;be understood also&nbsp;about&nbsp;AI.&nbsp;Right&nbsp;now, AI&nbsp;can&nbsp;answer&nbsp;quite&nbsp;good&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;questions&nbsp;but&nbsp;a&nbsp;year&nbsp;later&nbsp;it&nbsp;will&nbsp;give&nbsp;a&nbsp;different&nbsp;answer&nbsp;based&nbsp;on&nbsp;what&nbsp;it&nbsp;has&nbsp;learned. In&nbsp;this&nbsp;we&nbsp;need&nbsp;a human&nbsp;moderator&nbsp;who&nbsp;can&nbsp;always&nbsp;stay&nbsp;on&nbsp;track&nbsp;about&nbsp;how&nbsp;accurate&nbsp;and&nbsp;reliable&nbsp;AI is.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Self-evaluation&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&nbsp;was&nbsp;quite&nbsp;familiar&nbsp;already&nbsp;with&nbsp;the&nbsp;topics&nbsp;for&nbsp;this&nbsp;assignment.&nbsp;I have not used ChatGPT that much, so it was nice to see how much it has evolved in the answers. I&nbsp;guess&nbsp;the&nbsp;evaluation&nbsp;of&nbsp;AI&#8217;s&nbsp;accuracy&nbsp;in&nbsp;information&nbsp;is a&nbsp;never-ending&nbsp;task.&nbsp;This&nbsp;requires&nbsp;us&nbsp;humans&nbsp;to&nbsp;step&nbsp;up&nbsp;our&nbsp;information&nbsp;and&nbsp;learnings&nbsp;because&nbsp;we&nbsp;always&nbsp;need&nbsp;to&nbsp;be&nbsp;the&nbsp;moderator&nbsp;for AI.&nbsp;I&#8217;m&nbsp;especially&nbsp;happy&nbsp;and&nbsp;proud&nbsp;that&nbsp;I&#8217;ve&nbsp;invested&nbsp;my&nbsp;time&nbsp;to&nbsp;learn&nbsp;more&nbsp;about&nbsp;all&nbsp;things&nbsp;digital&nbsp;and&nbsp;that&nbsp;I&#8217;ve&nbsp;decided&nbsp;to&nbsp;graduate&nbsp;in Master in Digital Health!&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital dentistry&nbsp;&nbsp; My&nbsp;professional&nbsp;journey&nbsp;has&nbsp;always&nbsp;had&nbsp;a&nbsp;big&nbsp;focus&nbsp;in&nbsp;digital&nbsp;transformation in dentistry. My&nbsp;background&nbsp;education&nbsp;is a dental&nbsp;technician&nbsp;and I&nbsp;have&nbsp;been&nbsp;part&nbsp;of the&nbsp;digital&nbsp;processes&nbsp;that&nbsp;dental&nbsp;labs&nbsp;and&nbsp;clinics&nbsp;have&nbsp;been&nbsp;going&nbsp;through&nbsp;the&nbsp;recent&nbsp;years.&nbsp;Dental&nbsp;laboratories&nbsp;have&nbsp;actually&nbsp;had&nbsp;digital&nbsp;solutions&nbsp;for&nbsp;prosthetics&nbsp;now&nbsp;already&nbsp;more&nbsp;than&nbsp;40&nbsp;years.&nbsp;My&nbsp;own&nbsp;professional&nbsp;career&nbsp;started 14&nbsp;years&nbsp;ago when&nbsp;dental&nbsp;laboratories in Finland started&nbsp;to&nbsp;make more&nbsp;use&nbsp;of&nbsp;computer&nbsp;aided&nbsp;design and&nbsp;manufacturing. I&nbsp;was&nbsp;working&nbsp;for a&nbsp;reseller&nbsp;that&nbsp;sold&nbsp;scanners&nbsp;and design&nbsp;software&nbsp;for&nbsp;dental&nbsp;laboratories&nbsp;in&nbsp;order&nbsp;to&nbsp;produce&nbsp;dental&nbsp;crowns&nbsp;and&nbsp;bridges&nbsp;digitally. At&nbsp;that&nbsp;time, it&nbsp;was&nbsp;not&nbsp;that&nbsp;common&nbsp;to&nbsp;have&nbsp;a CAD\/CAM&nbsp;solution&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;dental&nbsp;laboratory&nbsp;compared&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;present&nbsp;where&nbsp;all&nbsp;labs&nbsp;have&nbsp;a&nbsp;system&nbsp;in&nbsp;their&nbsp;hands.&nbsp;There&nbsp;are&nbsp;actually&nbsp;already&nbsp;some&nbsp;labs&nbsp;in Finland&nbsp;that&nbsp;are&nbsp;totally&nbsp;digital&nbsp;meaning&nbsp;they&nbsp;are&nbsp;doing&nbsp;all&nbsp;their&nbsp;work&nbsp;with&nbsp;digital&nbsp;devices.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Nowadays&nbsp;almost&nbsp;all&nbsp;indications&nbsp;of&nbsp;dental&nbsp;prosthetics&nbsp;can&nbsp;be&nbsp;made&nbsp;digitally, and no&nbsp;one&nbsp;wants&nbsp;to go&nbsp;back&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;analog&nbsp;way&nbsp;of&nbsp;working.&nbsp;Processes&nbsp;are&nbsp;more&nbsp;predictable,&nbsp;faster&nbsp;and&nbsp;more&nbsp;accurate&nbsp;than&nbsp;before.&nbsp;The&nbsp;use&nbsp;of&nbsp;in-house production with the help of 3D printers&nbsp;and milling units is a normal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11796,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogi.savonia.fi\/eerikakorhonen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogi.savonia.fi\/eerikakorhonen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogi.savonia.fi\/eerikakorhonen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogi.savonia.fi\/eerikakorhonen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogi.savonia.fi\/eerikakorhonen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogi.savonia.fi\/eerikakorhonen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/blogi.savonia.fi\/eerikakorhonen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogi.savonia.fi\/eerikakorhonen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}