Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Dental Education: A Review and Guide for Curriculum Update

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This is an important area that requires much investigation before implementation in the dental curriculum. The authors have provided a list of references that will prove useful in evaluating the use of AI in the curriculum. However, I found it very difficult to navigate through this paper and the English needed much 'polish'. Two issues immediately jump out from the discussion. Firstly, that AI presently cannot yet accurately provide anatomical imagery. Secondly, the ethical issues and the problems of malpractice in assessments and examinations. I would like to see a paper on this topic, and with the issues raised by the authors, published to allow dental educators and clinicians to consider future developments, but this paper needs radical rewriting to make it more comprehensible.

Author Response

Dear Reviewer 1,

We appreciate your time and effort in appraising our manuscript. Indeed, you highlighted two specific important areas that deserve to be a paper by themselves. We take this recommendation seriously and will consider writing more about ethical issues and malpractice related to AI-assisted diagnosis in a subsequent paper. As you recommended, we have drastically rewritten most sections of this paper (Title, Abstract, Introduction, Discussion, and Conclusion) to make it more digestible and easier to understand. Each change is shown in the tracked changes in MS Word format. Specifically, we have rewritten the Discussion chapter to enable dental educators to consider future developments in a broader context. We have also improved the English language and style. The observations about the limitations of artificial intelligence mentioned in your review are well accepted, as there are issues of malpractice in assessments and exams, which we have emphasized more.

Kind regards

authors

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Reviewer 2 Report

The manuscript "Health Professions Education Curriculum in the Artificial Intelligence Era: A Dental Perspective" (co)authored by AI is dealing with a very frontline issue and the educational use of AI in Dentistry will soon become increasingly factual.

I would suggest the authors to use the main areas of dental education mentioned in lines 336-338 throughout the whole manuscript, i.e. rephrasing the introduction accordingly.

Another suggestion is to rewrite last two paragraphs in the Discussion area in order to be the same style as the previous ones (lines 396-409).

In conclusions section (lines 419-420) the appropriate term I think it would be "the two areas that could be mostly transformed" or something similar. 

I think that after minor revision the paper has the potential to be published in Education Sciences.

Author Response

Dear reviewer 2,

We are thankful for your specific comments and recommendations. Regarding the title, we have adapted it more to the content of the paper and improved its wording as well. We have decided upon our current research of publications in this increasingly thought-provoking field that the ideal title in complementarity with keywords would be: “Advances in Artificial Intelligence and their Impact on Dental Education: A Review and Guide for Curriculum Update.”

I would suggest the authors to use the main areas of dental education mentioned in lines 336-338 throughout the whole manuscript, i.e. rephrasing the introduction accordingly.

We have reorganized the paper. For instance, the "Introduction" section addresses both main areas of dental education: 1) Theoretical education and 2) Practical/clinical education, including lines 209-223.

Another suggestion is to rewrite last two paragraphs in the Discussion area in order to be the same style as the previous ones (lines 396-409).

We have rewritten the last paragraphs in the Discussion visualized as tracked changes – lines: 563-587.

In conclusions section (lines 419-420) the appropriate term I think it would be "the two areas that could be mostly transformed" or something similar. 

The conclusion was corrected accordingly. Thank you for the suggestions.

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Reviewer 3 Report

I think the topic, artificial intelligence impact in the dental education,  is very interesting and provocative. The manuscript is well-organized and drives the attention to a new reality that will affect our way of teaching.

Author Response

Dear reviewer 3,

We are thankful for your specific comments and recommendations. Accordingly, we have improved the manuscript. Thank you for supporting our work.

Kind regards

authors

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