The present teachings relate to a method for improving usability of dental imaging data, comprising: providing imaging data comprising a plurality of different images of at least one dental imaging modality of a patient; providing metadata for each of the images; selecting one or some of the images; retrieving in response to the selection at least one another image; wherein the retrieval is performed by comparing metadata of at least one of the selected images and metadata of at least one of the retrieved images. The present teachings also relate to systems, software products and storage media.