CATEGORY AUSTRALASIAN DENTIST 79 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE in accuracy – has made the problem increasingly difficult to address through conventional means. “Dentistry has always prided itself on evidence-based practice. We teach EBP in every dental school. We expect it in the literature. But somewhere between the clinic and the comment section, we lost it. The goal of GDI Peer is to bring it back – not by restricting what people say, but by being honest about what the evidence actually supports.” The platform is currently in active deployment across Australia and New Zealand, with expansion into the Americas led by co-founder Prof. Richard B.E. Kallas, one of Brazil’s most respected oral surgeons and implantologists. International roll-out to further markets is underway. An inclusive environment for the entire profession GDI Peer also solves the problem of previous exclusion on other social media platforms and believes that industry and students should be involved in the discourse online. Industry have supported huge investments in the profession over the years and often have supported the funding of research and been the source of innovation, so their exclusion was not something Dr Calavassy felt was fair nor beneficial for a platform encouraging professional discourse. The strategic and operational challenge for such inclusion was well planned and now the alignment of parallel “feeds” and individual ‘communities’ of interest has solved this challenge of inclusion and allows registered professionals complete control of how and with whom they wish to interact. The broader implications for AI in healthcare communication GDI Peer represents one of the first applications of real-time AI evidence validation in a professional healthcare social network. The implications extend well beyond dentistry. As AI tools become more capable of rapidly assessing and contextualising clinical literature, the question of how – and whether – those tools are applied to professional communications is becoming urgent. The dental profession, with its well-established evidence-based practice culture and its relatively contained professional registration structure, may be an instructive model for other healthcare disciplines grappling with the same challenge. “We’re not anti-social media. We’re pro-evidence. The two are not incompatible – but making them compatible requires someone to actually build the infrastructure through a strategic lens and with industry knowledge. That’s what we’ve done.” u Dental professionals wishing to join GDI Peer can register at https://gdipeer.com/join?ref=ADJULY26 Founding Member places are strictly limited. For Industry registration, please reach out or register directly online: https://gdipeer.com/ industry/register/documents Dr Fred Calavassy | Founder & CEO, Global Dental Institute / GDI Peer fred@globaldentalinstitute.com Available from leading dental wholesalers EasyFit™ TePeasy it One brush for small and medium gaps Brushes away plaque between teeth One brush covers ISO 2-4* *Indicative sizing vs ISO sizes for interdental brushes Simple for you and your patients GDI Peer is a verified professional social platform for registered oral health practitioners, developed by the Global Dental Institute. It features AIassisted evidence validation of clinical content, CPD tracking, mentor-mentee connections, and an evidence library.
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