The purpose of this document is to describe the essential characteristics for digital periodontitis risk assessment resources including standardized definitions, description of input elements, and components and characteristics of a periodontitis risk assessment report.

Use cases for digital periodontitis risk assessment resources include clinical decision support for healthcare providers, care guidance for healthcare providers and patients, and interchange of periodontitis risk assessment data among stakeholders.

Stakeholders include, but are not limited to healthcare consumers, healthcare providers, healthcare organizations, academic institutions, researchers, third-party payers, and public health policy makers.

This document does not apply to paper based or other non-digital periodontitis risk resources.

This document does not establish requirements for testing predictive power, or scientific accuracy of risk assessments produced by individual software products.