Surface-Specific Electrical Occlusal Caries Diagnosis: Reproducibility, Correlation with Histological Lesion Depth, and Tooth Type Dependence

Caries Research

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 330-336

  Huysmans, M Ch D N J M ^a   Longbottom, C ^b   Hintze, H ^c   Verdonschot, E H ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Caries diagnosis; Dental caries; Diagnostic systems; Electrical resistance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENTAL CARIES; DENTIN; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTRONICS; ENAMEL; GEL; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLAR TOOTH; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; PREMOLAR TOOTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BICUSPID; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL ENAMEL; DENTAL FISSURES; DENTIN; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; GELS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MOLAR; OBSERVER VARIATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031615096     PISSN: 00086568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000016468     Document Type: Article

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