AI RESEARCH
Large AI Models in Dental Healthcare: From General-Purpose Systems to Domain-Specific Foundation Models
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2606.02914v1 Announce Type: cross Background: Oral diseases affect nearly 3.5B people worldwide, yet the comparative clinical potential of large-scale AI models in dentistry remains poorly understood. Three distinct model categories have emerged: language-generative models, discriminative vision foundation models, and dental-specific foundation models, with no unified review examining their relationships and collective limitations.