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- Title
Laser fluorescence on dental caries detection under epidemiological setting.
- Authors
Silva, Renato Pereira Da; Assaf, Andréa Vieira; Romeiro, Marina Vannucci Mena; Bennazzi, Aline Sampieri Tonello; Brandão, Gustavo Antônio Martins; Pereira, Antonio Carlos
- Abstract
Aim: To evaluate reproducibility of visual exam under artificial lighting (VI) and DIAGNOdent™ (DD) exams, their validity and their association (VI+DD) in examining occlusal dental surfaces under epidemiological setting. Methods: One hundred and sixty five 12-year-old schoolchildren from public schools from Piracicaba, SP, Brazil, were examined under epidemiological setting using different diagnostic criteria (D1, D1+D3 and D3). Kappa statistics was adopted for reproducibility study, while sensibility, specificity and accuracy were adopted for validity study. Results: The intra/interexaminer Kappa for VI and DD exams at D1, D3 and D1+D3 criteria were 0.88/0.82 and 0.04/0.18, 0.91/0.85 and 0.36/0.35, 0.88/0.83 and 0.30/0.32, respectively. The VI was the most accurate exam at D1 (A=87.38%) and D1+D3 (A=82.45%) criteria, while VI+DD was the most accurate exam at D3 criterion (A=75.29%). Conclusions: Initial caries lesions can be satisfactorily detected by VI exam, while DD exam improved the VI exam sensitivity at D1 and D3 diagnostic criteria under epidemiological setting.
- Subjects
PIRACICABA (Brazil); BRAZIL; PEDIATRIC dentistry; LASER-induced fluorescence; DIAGNOSIS of dental caries; EPIDEMIOLOGY; SCHOOL children's dental care; DENTAL surveys
- Publication
Brazilian Journal of Oral Sciences, 2012, Vol 11, Issue 2, p130
- ISSN
1677-3217
- Publication type
Article