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.
Abstract
The predictive models demonstrated good discriminability with both the training and validation sets and were suitable for primary oral care clinicians and stomatological hospitals.