Application of a Caries Treatment Difficulty Assessment System in Dental Caries Management

Yu Wei, Jingqian Wang, Dongyue Dai, Haohao Wang, Min Zhang, Zhigang Zhang, Xuedong Zhou, Libang He () and Lei Cheng ()
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Yu Wei: State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, Department of Operative Dentistry and Endodontics, West China School of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
Jingqian Wang: State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, Department of Operative Dentistry and Endodontics, West China School of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
Dongyue Dai: State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, Department of Operative Dentistry and Endodontics, West China School of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
Haohao Wang: State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, Department of Operative Dentistry and Endodontics, West China School of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
Min Zhang: State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, Department of Operative Dentistry and Endodontics, West China School of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
Zhigang Zhang: Department of Stomatology, The People’s Hospital of Dazu, Chongqing 402360, China
Xuedong Zhou: State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, Department of Operative Dentistry and Endodontics, West China School of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
Libang He: State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, Department of Operative Dentistry and Endodontics, West China School of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
Lei Cheng: State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, Department of Operative Dentistry and Endodontics, West China School of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 21, 1-13

Abstract: Dental caries is one of the most common chronic diseases caused by progressive bacteria, affecting all age groups. Today, restorative fillings are widely used for dental caries treatment, but the restorative treatment has a high failure rate. Meanwhile, many researchers have discovered the differences of caries risk among populations by using the caries risk assessment and put forward a new standpoint that caries should be treated individually. Therefore, our research group established a Dental Caries Treatment Difficulty Assessment system in a previous study. This time, we combined the caries risk assessment with the caries treatment difficulty assessment, then used Python to design a Dental Caries Management Software. The purpose of this case report is to present a case applying this software in dental caries management and other data collected in Chengdu, China, with this software on the assessment of caries treatment difficulty. Patients with personalized assessment and management can achieve good treatment results, including reducing the risk and treatment difficulty of dental caries. At the same time, other cases show that the software has good application potential in individual management and group information collection. These cases indicate that the software enables dentists to carry out both the risk assessments and the treatment difficulty assessment of patients, and it has the potential as a tool for epidemiological investigation. It also enables dentists and patients to have a basic understanding of the dental health status of patients and create personalized dental caries treatment, so as to achieve the goal of controlling the progression of dental caries and rebuilding the structure and restoring the function of teeth.

Keywords: caries risk assessment; treatment difficulty assessment; dental caries management; software (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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