About this episode

The episode discusses modern approaches to caries management with a focus on minimally invasive techniques and the implications of AI in diagnosis.

If you showed the same bitewing to 10 dentists, would they all agree on whether to pick up the drill? Why does the word monitoring mean nothing to a patient — and how does swapping it for active surveillance change everything from your notes to your indemnity to your government policy meetings? Is it overtreatment to act on an E2 lesion — or is “watch and wait” actually the lazy answer dressed up as minimally invasive? And what should you actually do with AI caries detection that flags shadows your eye doesn’t see? In this episode, Professor Avijit Banerjee — Professor of Cariology & Operative Dentistry at King’s College London, Honorary Consultant at Guy’s & St Thomas’, and First Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry at the College of General Dentistry — sits down with Jaz for what is genuinely one of the most important caries conversations on the podcast. Part one of two. Avijit doesn’t do soft answers. The drill-fill-bill model is broken. “Monitoring” needs to go. “Treatment planning” is antiquated terminology medics dropped twenty-five years ago. And AI in caries diagnosis? Useful — but the moment it gets things wrong, you are the one with indemnity, not the software. What…

People in this episode

Host: Jaz Gulati

Guest: Professor Avijit Banerjee

Topics covered

• Caries management
• Minimally invasive dentistry
• AI in dentistry
• Dental terminology
• Patient monitoring

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: King’s College London, Guy’s & St Thomas’, College of General Dentistry

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