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A deep-learning system for dental plaque quantification from disclosed intraoral photographs, validation against clinical plaque scoring.

Journal of dentistry · de Andrade EF, Felisberto K, Correia RLB, Shibli JA, Hassan MA · 2026-10-19

Researchers trained artificial intelligence models to measure dental plaque from disclosed intraoral photos and found the automated measurements agreed with dentist-scored plaque indices comparably to inter-examiner agreement.

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