Technology is evolving every day and the latest trends in Artificial Intelligence have made dental procedures less time consuming and minimally invasive. With their application the decision making processes have become easier and faster. Patients are more comfortable and dentists are more confident about their work. This advent of technology into medical science has made both practitioners and their patients comfortable and confident about the treatment rendered and received. The use of machine learning has made the decision making process easier by stimulating human intelligence into the machines that are programmed to think like humans and mimic their actions. Artificial Intelligence has proved itself to be a boon in the field of dentistry. In future AI based comprehensive care systems are expected to have high quality patient care and help researchers know and treat more about diseases. Even though misconceptions and certain limitations about Artificial Intelligence prevails, it still continues to flourish due to its advantages in providing precision.

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The havoc of COVID 19 pandemic, has created a situation of panic among the health care professionals and general population worldwide. The Virus being a droplet infection has increased the vulnerability of infection among the dental professionals, affecting the clinical practice. The patient being reluctant to visit the dentist due to fear of cross contamination in the dental office has reduced the patient in flow to a certain extent. Various measures have been suggested by the health authorities to avoid the transmission of the virus in the dental office. One such measure is the use of a preprocedural rinse. This acts as the need of the hour to reduce the virus transmission from the patients and prevent cross contamination in dental clinics. Various formulation of mouthwashes are used for preprocedural rinsing. The most common being chlorhexidine, povidone-iodine, cetypyridinium chloride and hydrogen peroxide. The antimicrobial property of these have also been found to be effective against severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2. These ingredients in mouth washes are found to temporarily neutralize the virus load for certain amount of time in saliva and other oral fluids. Thus preprocedural rinse can reduce the risk of transmission of virus and can be used as an adjunct with air filters and PPE kits for prevention and protection from infection.