Dental-TriageBench: Benchmarking Multimodal Reasoning for Hierarchical Dental Triage

Dental-TriageBench introduces the first expert-annotated benchmark for multimodal reasoning in hierarchical dental triage, comprising 246 authentic, de-identified cases. The research highlights a substantial performance gap between 19 MLLMs and junior dentists, particularly in treatment-level triage tasks requiring multiple referral domains.