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Casey D Wright¹, Marcus G Wild², Rebecca Cutler³

¹Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences, Yakima, Washington, USA.

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Summary

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This study introduces high-dimensional vector space modeling to better understand oral health. This computational approach allows for precise, person-level characterizations and tracking of oral health over time.

Keywords:

Dental patient reported outcomes Operationalization Oral health-related quality of life Precision modeling

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Computational Health Informatics
Oral Health Research
Biomedical Data Science

Background:

Operationalizing oral health requires integrating diverse clinical and patient-reported outcomes.
Computational advancements enable sophisticated modeling of complex health phenomena.
A novel approach is needed to comprehensively conceptualize oral health.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce high-dimensional vector space modeling (HVSM) as a theoretical framework for oral health.
To propose HVSM for operationalizing the 3P model of oral health.
To outline the benefits of HVSM for personalized oral health characterization and intervention.

Main Methods:

Discussion of high-dimensional vector space modeling principles.
Application of HVSM to integrate clinical, patient-reported, and demographic oral health data.
Proposal of comparison vectors for defining and quantifying oral health disparities.

Main Results:

HVSM enables precise, person-level characterizations of oral health.
The approach facilitates longitudinal tracking of oral health status.
Dynamically tuned comparison vectors can define optimal oral health and identify intervention targets.

Conclusions:

High-dimensional vector space modeling offers a powerful new paradigm for understanding and managing oral health.
This method allows for more accurate assessment, personalized monitoring, and targeted interventions for oral and craniofacial diseases.
HVSM can quantify disparities and guide efforts to improve population oral health outcomes.