A Comparison of Clinical and Radiographic Caries Diagnoses in Posterior Teeth of 12-Year-Old Lithuanian Children

Caries Research

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 340-348

  Machiulskiene, Vita ^a   Nyvad, B ^b   Baelum, V ^c  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bite wing radiographs; Caries diagnosis; Children; Non cavitated caries

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LITHUANIA; MOLAR TOOTH; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; PREMOLAR TOOTH; PREVALENCE; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOOTH RADIOGRAPHY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

BICUSPID; CHILD; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL FISSURES; DMF INDEX; HUMANS; LITHUANIA; MOLAR; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREVALENCE; RADIOGRAPHY, BITEWING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033191117     PISSN: 00086568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000016532     Document Type: Review

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