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Area of Science:

  • Dental diagnostics
  • Biophotonics
  • Caries detection

Background:

  • Early detection of proximal caries is crucial for effective dental treatment.
  • Quantitative light-induced fluorescence (QLF) offers a non-invasive method for caries assessment.
  • Current QLF analysis involves complex quantitative parameters.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the screening performance of QLF technology for proximal caries detection.
  • To introduce and validate a new simplified QLF scoring index for proximal caries (QS-Proximal).

Main Methods:

  • A clinical study involving 280 proximal surfaces assessed via visual-tactile, radiographic, and QLF imaging.
  • QLF images analyzed for fluorescence loss (ΔF) and red fluorescence (ΔR) parameters.
  • Evaluation of a novel QLF scoring index (QS-Proximal) for proximal caries detection.

Main Results:

  • Both ΔF and ΔR showed high Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve (AUROC) values for dentine caries (0.860 and 0.902, respectively).
  • QS-Proximal demonstrated excellent AUROC values (0.826–0.864) for detecting dentine caries.
  • QLF parameters showed lower performance for enamel caries detection.

Conclusions:

  • The QS-Proximal scoring index exhibits excellent performance in detecting proximal caries.
  • QLF technology, particularly the QS-Proximal, serves as a valuable tool for screening proximal caries.