METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CARIES DETECTION

Abstract: methods and apparatuses for dental caries detection and communication. these methods and apparatuses may be used in real time, as part of an intraoral scanning system, or at any point following intraoral scanning. these methods and apparatuses may use a plurality of different images of the teeth, each having two or more fields (e.g., wavelengths such as visible light, near-infrared, fluorescent, etc.), and may use a trained pattern matching agent to detect possible caries centers from each image, then may project some or all of the possible caries centers onto a 3d model of the teeth to identify consensus caries and caries centers.

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A61B5/0088: {for oral or dental tissue}

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