Examination of new clinical dental caries in school children using real intra oral photos with artificial intelligence model YOLO-V8x

The YOLOv8x model in the HI Bogi app demonstrated diagnostic performance equal to dentists and a drastically shortened examination time, validating its use in school-based dental health programs. But class-specific precision variation suggests further refinement is needed. Further studies ought to increase datasets and characterize advanced architecture, such as transformer-based architecture, to achieve higher specificity and detection rates in rare lesion categories.