Comparative assessment of occlusal and proximal caries detection using an intraoral scanner and panoramic radiography.
A retrospective study compared three caries detection methods—panoramic radiography, fluorescence-based detection in an intraoral scanner, and visual assessment of scanned images—finding that the scanner and radiography identified different lesion types, with modest agreement between methods overall.
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