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Pre-Deployment Audit of Actionability and Equity in Severe Tooth Loss Prediction Using Constrained Algorithmic Recourse and Temporal Validation.

Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · Lam QT, Fan FY, Peng TY, Feng SW, Huang CC, Chow TH, Le MHN, Vu G, Wang YL, Le NQK, Lee IT · 2026-09-01

Researchers evaluated whether a machine-learning model that predicts severe tooth loss in adults identifies practical, fair pathways for intervention, finding that while the model performed consistently across datasets, only about 10–13% of high-risk individuals had feasible modifications available within the model's constraints.

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