ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by OpenAI and it first became available to the public in November 2022. ChatGPT can assist in finding academic papers on the web and summarizing them. This chatbot has the potential to be applied in scientific writing, it has the ability to generate automated drafts, summarize articles, and translate content from several languages. This in turn can make academic writing faster and less challenging. However, due to ethical considerations, its use in scientific writing should be regulated and carefully monitored. Few papers have discussed the use of ChatGPT in scientific research writing. This review aims to discuss all the relevant published papers that discuss the use of ChatGPT in medical and dental research.

Chat generative pre-trained transformer (ChatGPT) is an artificial intelligence chatbot that uses natural language processing that can respond to human input in a conversational manner. ChatGPT has numerous applications in the health care system including dentistry; it is used in diagnoses and for assessing disease risk and scheduling appointments. It also has a role in scientific research. In the dental field, it has provided many benefits such as detecting dental and maxillofacial abnormalities on panoramic radiographs and identifying different dental restorations. Therefore, it helps in decreasing the workload. But even with these benefits, one should take into consideration the risks and limitations of this chatbot. Few articles mentioned the use of ChatGPT in dentistry. This comprehensive review represents data collected from 66 relevant articles using PubMed and Google Scholar as databases. This review aims to discuss all relevant published articles on the use of ChatGPT in dentistry.