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Every tooth was encoded for the absence (0) or presence (1) of radiographic findings: caries, restorations, fixed prosthesis, and implants. Cohen\u2019s kappa (\u03ba) with 95% bootstrap confidence intervals was used for assessment of inter-rater reliability. The AI system\u2019s diagnostic accuracy was evaluated for sensitivity and specificity using human consensus reference standards.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The annotated dataset consisted of 2,829 tooth-level observations. The two radiologists showed substantial to near-perfect agreement for prosthesis (\u03ba = 0.925) and restorations (\u03ba = 0.872) detection, moderate for caries detection (\u03ba = 0.804), and lowest for implants detection (\u03ba = 0.726). The AI system showed substantial agreement with the human observers for restorations (\u03ba = 0.812\u20130.871) and prosthesis detection (\u03ba = 0.882\u20130.940), moderate for caries (\u03ba = 0.454\u20130.508), and the highest agreement for implant detection (\u03ba = 0.763\u20130.974). Post-filtration for human consensus, the AI system showed high sensitivity for implant (1.000), prosthesis (0.984), restorations (0.974), and caries (0.972). The AI system showed high specificity for implant (1.000) and prosthesis (0.984), and restorations (0.936) detection, but slightly lower specificity for caries detection (0.842).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The AI system demonstrated diagnostic performance comparable to that of oral and maxillofacial radiologists for detecting multiple dental findings on bitewing radiographs, including restorations, prosthesis, and implants, and slightly lower for caries detection. 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