User Group Meeting 2026
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Rebuilding the Endodontic Practice Workflow with AI

Session

Dr. Logan Bell, DDS & Kim Lopez

Course description

Some of the most useful applications of AI in an endodontic practice have little to do with diagnosis or treatment planning. They involve eliminating the repetitive work that surrounds patient care.

This session will show how AI has been integrated into a real endodontic practice to streamline documentation, referral communication, and everyday office workflows. Attendees will see an ambient AI scribe used within the operatory, follow a clinical note as it is transformed into a referral report, and see how AI coding tools can turn a plain-English description of an inefficient workflow into a working custom application.

Examples will include automating CBCT import and export processes, reducing dependence on individual team members for technical tasks, and identifying other repetitive workflows that may be better handled by software. The emphasis throughout will be on practical implementation, appropriate human oversight, and using AI to reduce friction rather than replace clinical judgment.

Objectives

  • Identify non-clinical endodontic workflows that are appropriate candidates for AI-assisted documentation, information transformation, or automation.
  • Describe how ambient AI documentation can be integrated into an operatory workflow while preserving structured clinical data and clinician review.
  • Explain how generative AI and AI coding tools can be used to create customized, practice-specific solutions for repetitive administrative and technical tasks.

Expect to learn

  • What an AI-assisted documentation workflow actually looks like in the operatory, from microphone placement and team interaction through final note review.
  • How to turn an approved clinical note into a detailed, consistent referral report using customized AI instructions and examples.
  • How to move from “I do this manually every time” to a working automated solution by describing a workflow in plain language and iterating with an AI coding tool.