
The Dental Aesthetic Index (DAI)
Purpose: | To use the Dental Aesthetic Index (DAI) to evaluate a patient's teeth for need of orthodontic treatment based on aesthetic appearance. |
Specialty: | Otolaryngology |
Objective: | clinical diagnosis, including family history for genetics, criteria for diagnosis, severity, prognosis, stage, complication detection, quality of life |
ICD-10: | K07 |
Description: | The Dental Aesthetic Index (DAI) is an orthodontic index which incorporates socially defined aesthetic standards. In addition, it provides a severity measure for psychologic and functional impairment. It consists of 10 components multiplied by weights based on regression coefficients, plus a constant. |
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