title: [Role of computerised programs for the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of partially edendulous patients].
abstract: In order to elaborate a correct plan of diagnosis and find the correct therapeutic solution of election in partial edentulous it would be necessary to use a Support System for Clinical Decisions (SSCD). This may bring many benefits both to the private medical assistance,and to institutions with wider therapeutic, educational and scientific objectives.
  
  
  METHODS
  Using as starting point the ProDent platform of application existing at the Faculty of Dental Medicine from The University of Medicine and Pharmacy Gr.T. Popa Iaşi we have developed an expert system for clinical case evaluation and for providing a reliable therapeutic solution. In this respect we have used the ProDent application database--a complete and complex database which records information about patients.
  
  
  RESULTS
  At the same time the application generates a table recording a clinico-biological data hierarchy, highlighting the categories which may require intervention during the specific preparation stage. The use of bayes inference also indicates the most reliable therapeutic solution, the initial plan of treatment, the reliability score and the oral rehabilitation predictions. By adding the patient initial score and the oral rehabilitation predictions provided by the application, we obtain the patient initial therapeutic score.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The simulation programs and the electronic format of the observation paper are efficient tools that provide an integrative holistic approach of patients with different forms of oral pathology, under the incidence of local, loco-regional and general complications.
authors.affiliation: Facultatea de Medicină Dentară, Disciplina Clinica si Terapia Edentaţiei Parţial Intinse, Universitatea de Medicină si Farmacie Gr.T. Popa Iaşi.
authors.forename: Al
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Crăciun
authors.forename: Florentina
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Vasilache
authors.forename: Laura-Cossette
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Căpraru
authors.forename: Nina
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Earar
authors.forename: Magda Ecaterina
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Antohe
authors.forename: Norina Consuela
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Forna
mesh_terms: D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical / Q000592:standards; D019094:Dental Prosthesis, Implant-Supported / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007576:Jaw, Edentulous, Partially / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000628:therapy*; D008432:Mathematical Computing; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000592:standards; D016896:Treatment Outcome