The Journal of Dental Hygiene, published by the American Dental Hygienists' Association (ADHA), featured a pilot study in its August 2026 issue examining how artificial intelligence-based documentation tools affect dental hygiene clinical education.
The study piloted an AI tool that converts clinical speech into structured dental notes, testing it with second-year dental hygiene students during clinical rotations. Over a three-month period, researchers found the tool was associated with improvements in both perceived workflow efficiency and patient-provider connection.
As AI documentation tools increasingly enter dental hygiene curricula, the findings raise questions about how programs should prepare future registered dental hygienists (RDHs) for AI-assisted practice environments.
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