The present invention is a method of making a diagnosis of a dental condition of a patient which includes the steps of collecting non-imaging data relating to the patient, storing the non-imaging data in a storage medium containing stored non-imaging data and existing imaging data for this patient and for a plurality of other patients and applying non-real time and non-user attended algorithms to the stored non-imaging data and the existing imaging data of this patient and other patients. The algorithms determine the diagnosis of the dental condition of the patient. The diagnosis either is complete or determines what new dental imaging data for the patient is required to be acquired to diagnose the dental condition of the patient. The non-imaging data includes non-clinical data and non-dental clinical data.
