Establishment and Validation of an Early Childhood Caries Prediction Model: a Multicentre Prospective Cohort Study.

Key Points

• To establish and validate a predictive model for early childhood caries.
• Conducted a multicentre prospective cohort study involving multiple dental clinics.
• Utilized training and validation sets to assess model performance.
• Evaluated the model's reliability for use by oral healthcare professionals.
• The predictive models showed good discriminability in identifying high-risk cases.
• Both training and validation sets confirmed the model's effectiveness.
• The model is deemed suitable for primary oral care clinicians and stomatological hospitals.