{"id":216449,"date":"2025-06-23T13:04:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T18:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/ai-system-predicts-early-childhood-cavities-in-individual-teeth-with-high-accuracy"},"modified":"2025-06-23T13:04:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T18:04:59","slug":"ai-system-predicts-early-childhood-cavities-in-individual-teeth-with-high-accuracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/ai-system-predicts-early-childhood-cavities-in-individual-teeth-with-high-accuracy","title":{"rendered":"AI system predicts early childhood cavities in individual teeth with high accuracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-system-predicts-early-childhood-cavities-in-individual-teeth-with-high-accuracy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Early childhood caries (ECC)\u2014the world\u2019s most prevalent chronic childhood disease\u2014disproportionately targets specific teeth, a mystery that has remained unresolved until now.<\/p>\n<p>A collaborative research team from the Faculty of Dentistry of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS-QIBEBT), Qingdao Stomatological Hospital, and Qingdao Women and Children\u2019s Hospital has made a discovery that could revolutionize the prevention of childhood tooth decay.<\/p>\n<p>The team has developed the world\u2019s first artificial intelligence (AI) system capable of predicting early childhood caries risk for individual <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/teeth\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">teeth<\/a> based on microbial characteristics, achieving an accuracy rate of more than 90%. The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S1931312825001854\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Cell Host &amp; Microbe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early childhood caries (ECC)\u2014the world\u2019s most prevalent chronic childhood disease\u2014disproportionately targets specific teeth, a mystery that has remained unresolved until now. A collaborative research team from the Faculty of Dentistry of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS-QIBEBT), Qingdao Stomatological Hospital, and Qingdao Women and Children\u2019s Hospital has made a discovery [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}