# Fully-automatic robot dentist performs world's first human procedure

**URL:** <https://ehealthforum.nz/t/fully-automatic-robot-dentist-performs-worlds-first-human-procedure/31730>\
**Category:** Open Forum\
**Tags:** emerging-tech\
**Created:** [August 2, 2024, 7:48am UTC](https://ehealthforum.nz/t/fully-automatic-robot-dentist-performs-worlds-first-human-procedure/31730 "2024-08-02T07:48:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jon\_herries](https://ehealthforum.nz/user_avatar/ehealthforum.nz/jon_herries/32/6584_2.png) [@jon\_herries](https://ehealthforum.nz/u/jon_herries)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 7:48am UTC](https://ehealthforum.nz/t/fully-automatic-robot-dentist-performs-worlds-first-human-procedure/31730/1 "2024-08-02T07:48:55Z")

</div>

Couple of short but interesting videos on here, and makes the comment that the robot fits more easily in your mouth than a dentists hands…

> **[Fully-automatic robot dentist performs world's first human procedure](https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/robot-dentist-world-first/)**
>
> Nightmare fuel? Maybe – but in a historic moment for the dental profession, an AI-controlled autonomous robot has performed an entire procedure on a human patient for the first time, about eight times faster than a human dentist could do it.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![chris.paton](https://ehealthforum.nz/user_avatar/ehealthforum.nz/chris.paton/32/4348_2.png) [@chris.paton](https://ehealthforum.nz/u/chris.paton)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 11:42pm UTC](https://ehealthforum.nz/t/fully-automatic-robot-dentist-performs-worlds-first-human-procedure/31730/2 "2024-08-05T23:42:37Z")

</div>

Not sure I would agree to be the first one to have that done but it is probably the future! A bit like self-driving cars - people used to say ‘no way’ but now is fairly routine in some places.