A Digital Image-Based Oral, Dental and Dentofacial Pre-Screening System and Method for Children
An integrated system that evaluates oral and dental health, orthodontic condition and dentofacial structure in children for pre-screening purposes through digital images. Thanks to its image quality assessment, data sufficiency check, missing data detection and data completion modules, the system does not start the analysis until data sufficiency is achieved; when missing images are detected it requests only the missing ones from the user and repeats this cycle until the conditions are met. This prevents preliminary assessment from being carried out with low-quality or incomplete images. The analysis produces risk levels, priority scores and referral outputs to relevant specialities such as paediatric dentistry, orthodontics and periodontology for indicators including caries, plaque, oral hygiene, tooth alignment and malocclusion. It can be used in school-based screenings, community oral health programmes and remote healthcare services.