Perception of oral hygiene during orthodontic treatment: an eye-tracking and cross-sectional study.

Researchers used eye-tracking to compare how adolescents, parents, and dental students visually assessed oral hygiene in patients wearing braces, finding that dental students evaluated hygiene most accurately, while plaque-disclosing agents improved evaluation accuracy across all groups.

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