Comparing Fuzzy Logic Mamdani and Naïve Bayes for Dental Disease Detection

Background: Dental disease detection is essential for the diagnosis of dental diseases. Objective: This research compares the Mamdani fuzzy logic and Naïve Bayes in detecting dental diseases. Methods: The first is to process data on dental disease symptoms and dental support tissues based on complaints of toothache consulted with experts at a community health centre (puskesmas). The second is to apply the Mamdani fuzzy logic and the Naïve Bayes to the proposed expert system. The third is to provide recommended decisions about dental diseases based on the symptom data inputted into the expert system. Patient data were collected at the North Cilacap puskesmas between July and December 2021. Results: The Mamdani fuzzy logic converts uncertain values into definite values, and the Naïve  Bayes method classifies the type of dental disease by calculating the weight of patients’ answers. The methods were tested on 67 patients with dental disease complaints. The accuracy rate of the Mamdani fuzzy logic was 85.1%, and the Naïve Bayes method was 82.1%. Conclusion: The prediction accuracy was compared to the expert diagnoses to determine whether the Mamdani fuzzy logic method is better than the Naïve Bayes method.   Keywords: Dental Disease, Expert System, Mamdani Fuzzy Logic, Naïve Bayes, Prediction