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Interexaminer agreement dental caries epidemiological surveys: the importance o...
Tonello,Aline Sampieri; Silva,Renato Pereira da; Assaf,Andréa Videira; Ambrosano,Gláucia Maria Bovi; Peres,Silvia Helena de Carvalho SallesAbstract: Objective: To identify desirable characteristics, including different sample sizes and dental caries prevalences, in virtual samples that allow, at the same time, higher values of general agreement percentage (GPA) and Kappa coefficient (κ), under a low confidence interval (CI), in reproducibility studies. Method: A total of 384 statistical simulations of inter-examiner calibration, varying sample siz...
Different methods of dental caries diagnosis in an epidemiological setting
Silva,Renato Pereira da; Assaf,Andréa Videira; Ambrosano,Gláucia Maria Bovi; Mialhe,Fábio Luiz; Meneghim,Marcelo de Castro; Pereira,Antonio CarlosAIM: To evaluate the performance of dental caries detection when adjunct methods are associated and their applicability in epidemiological survey of dental caries, at D3 cavitated carious lesions at dentin layer and D1+D3 non cavitated and cavitated carious lesions at enamel/dentin layer diagnostic thresholds. METHODS: A total of 2189 posterior teeth from 165 12-year-old schoolchildren underwent visual examinat...