AI in dentistry is moving from spell-check to a full operating system. In Episode 19 of The Technology Evangelist Podcast, sponsored by Medidenta Digital Solutions, Dr. John Flucke sits down with Dr. Bernard Casse — physicist, former Xerox PARC innovator, defense-tech builder, and now CEO of Trust AI — to discuss why dentistry is finally getting the intelligent infrastructure it has desperately needed.
Key Takeaways:
- Dentistry is stuck in the 1995 “AOL dial-up” era of AI — radiographic tools are just spell-check. What’s coming is a writing partner that thinks like a 25-year veteran specialist.
- Trust AI’s Isaac is a dentistry-specific large language model trained and continuously updated by thousands of practicing dentists and specialists — no hallucinations, no outdated protocols, no black-box warnings.
- 4,000+ dentists joined by word-of-mouth alone because Isaac delivers instant, trustworthy mentorship 24/7 — the mentorship young Dr. Flucke never had when he opened cold decades ago.
- In 18–24 months: predictive diagnostics (caries and perio years before visible), real-time clinical decision trees, autonomous inventory, insurance verification, and merged CBCT/intraoral scan/genomics data.
- By 2027: one AI orchestrates every disconnected system (PMS, imaging, inventory, scheduling) — ending the $80,000 annual waste from the “Tower of Babel” problem.
- The future isn’t job loss — it’s the end of drudgery. Hygienists get 2+ hours back daily for patient care. Humans handle humans; AI handles everything else.
- In 5–10 years: the end of “drill, fill, bill.” Dentistry flips to paid prevention, rural GPs get Manhattan-level expertise in real time, and practicing without AI will feel like operating without anesthesia.
Dr. Casse’s prediction: Practices that treat AI as a superpower will thrive. Those that don’t will be using stone tools while competitors use lasers.
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