Fundamentals of Treatment Planning. Lino Calvani
an infinite amount of data. It gives flexible answers, insights, and possible solutions in many different fields of human endeavor, and is already useful to medical professionals in various fields of health care. For treatment planning, for instance, it can be used for collecting and reading scientific literature published in many languages. When asked about a specific disease or illness, it can promptly give one or more answers, propose a fitting diagnosis, and suggest various treatment options according to clinical facts, scientific evidence, and statistics. It can also design program interventions.60
However, despite all future AI digital capabilities and skills, the logic of treatment planning, with its basic and complex algorithms, will always constitute the common scientific foundation of medical, dental medical, and prosthodontic treatment and its planning.
Fig 1-1 The birth and growth of medical examination, diagnosis, and treatment planning in western civilization. The first real scientific impulse occurred in 1500, with curiosity for the unknown and for medicine following until the end of 1700, when scientific evidence changed the schools and universities and gave birth to empirical knowledge and scientific research.
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