{"id":184290,"date":"2026-02-04T00:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T05:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/penn-researchers-use-machine-learning-to-identify-tooth-decay-risk-factors\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T00:12:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T05:12:30","slug":"penn-researchers-use-machine-learning-to-identify-tooth-decay-risk-factors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/penn-researchers-use-machine-learning-to-identify-tooth-decay-risk-factors\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn researchers use machine learning to identify tooth decay risk factors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2026\/02\/penn-dental-tooth-decay-ai-machine-learning\">Penn researchers use machine learning to identify tooth decay risk factors<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2026\/02\/penn-dental-tooth-decay-ai-machine-learning\">https:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2026\/02\/penn-dental-tooth-decay-ai-machine-learning<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-04 00:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.thedp.com\">www.thedp.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Penn researchers developed an AI-powered process for identifying risk factors associated with tooth decay using machine learning from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).<\/li>\n<li>Led by Orthodontics professor Michel Koo and Biostatistics and Epidemiology professor Jason Moore, the study revealed previously unrecognized patterns linking dental health with systemic, nutritional, and environmental factors.<\/li>\n<li>The study highlighted significant dental health issues among children under 5, who showed iron and vitamin D deficiencies, and older adults over 65.<\/li>\n<li>It indicated that tooth decay could be a &#8220;sentinel marker&#8221; of underlying systemic health problems and associated high-sugar-content foods with decay, including apple juice and energy drinks.<\/li>\n<li>Researchers also found potential links between sleep and tooth decay, calling for further investigation on this subject.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penn researchers use machine learning to identify tooth decay risk factors https:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2026\/02\/penn-dental-tooth-decay-ai-machine-learning Publish Date: 2026-02-04&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/snworksceo.imgix.net\/dpn\/ca9cd77c-d19f-47ea-84ff-2e297f3604ac.sized-1000x1000.jpg?w=800&h=600","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184292,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184290\/revisions\/184292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}