DentAgent: Evidence-Centric Multi-Agent Coordination for Multimodal Dental Reasoning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18878v1
• Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:58:03 GMT
• Title: DentAgent: Evidence-Centric Multi-Agent Coordination for Multimodal Dental Reasoning
• Abstract summary: We introduce DentAgent, an evidence-centric multi-agent framework for dental AI.<n>Each specialist utilizes domain tools to convert observations into structured evidence records.<n>The Evidence Blackboard manages these records as a shared evidence state, tracking coverage, gaps, and conflicts before response generation.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Oral diseases affect billions of people worldwide, underscoring a pressing need for accurate and reliable dental assessment that integrates heterogeneous evidence from domain knowledge, radiographs, intraoral photographs, and 3D dental data. Most existing dental AI systems remain modality- or task-specific. Although recent vision-language models support flexible dental question answering, directly generated response leaves evidence implicit and untraceable. To address these limitations, we introduce DentAgent, an evidence-centric multi-agent framework, in which the Orchestrator coordinate five specialized agents spanning various modalities. Each specialist utilizes domain tools to convert observations into structured evidence records. The Evidence Blackboard manages these records as a shared evidence state, tracking coverage, gaps, and conflicts before response generation. This standardized evidence representation integrates isolated dental capabilities into a unified agentic workflow. Across four benchmarks, DentAgent demonstrates leading performance, even surpassing the senior specialists by 17.3 percentage points on multi-label diagnosis, which supports its value for broadly applicable and traceable multimodal dental reasoning, and highlights its potential as a technical foundation for population oral health assessment and management.

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