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MetaDent: Labeling Clinical Images for Vision-Language Models in Dentistry

Journal of Dental Research · M.-X. Li, W.-H. Deng, Z.-X. Wu, C.-X. Jin, J.-M. Wu, Y. Han, J. K. H. Tsoi, G.-S. Xia, C. Huang · 2026-03-16

Researchers created MetaDent, a large annotated dataset of over 60,000 dental images with detailed clinical descriptions, and tested advanced vision-language models on dental image tasks, finding that current models struggle with fine-grained understanding of intraoral photographs.

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