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All participants attended an 8-h standardised training session on MIH one week before the assessment. Following this standardised training session, all participants assessed 115 validated clinical photographs presented in random order under identical conditions, classifying each image using the MIH Index. Diagnostic accuracy was estimated using the Obuchowski area under the curve (AUC) method for a non-binary gold standard, with 95% confidence intervals (95% CI).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Overall diagnostic accuracy was 0.887 (95% CI 0.876, 0.897) for students and 0.945 (95% CI 0.936, 0.954) for specialists. Most pairwise comparisons showed high discriminative ability, but lower AUC values were observed for diagnostically challenging pairs\u2014particularly hypoplasia versus amelogenesis imperfecta (AUC\u2009=\u20090.76), atypical restorations versus atypical caries (AUC\u2009=\u20090.76), and hypoplasia versus non-MIH hypomineralisation defects (AUC\u2009=\u20090.80)\u2014and among categories representing different clinical manifestations of MIH. Specialists outperformed students in 36 pairwise comparisons, reaching statistical significance.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Paediatric dentistry specialists achieved higher image-based diagnostic accuracy than undergraduate students, with both groups assessed under identical conditions following the same standardised training. Certain diagnostic pairs remained challenging even for specialists. 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