Recently, a research team led by Associate Professor Liu Zuozhu at the Zhejiang University–University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Institute (ZJUI) reported significant advances in computer-enabled dental diagnosis and clinical practice and introduced DentVLM, the first multimodal vision-language model designed for clinical dentistry. The study, A Multimodal Vision-Language Model for Comprehensive Dental Diagnosis and Enhanced Clinical Practice, has been published in Nature Communications. Meng Zijie, a 2024 PhD student in Electronic Information at Zhejiang University, and Dai Xiwei, a 2025 master's student in Electronic Information at Zhejiang University, are among the co-first authors. The co-corresponding authors are Dr. Hao Jin of Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Professor Jimeng Sun of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Professor Wu Jian of the College of Computer Science and Technology at Zhejiang University, and Associate Professor Liu Zuozhu of ZJUI.