Detection of Natural White Spot Caries Lesions by an Ultrasonic System

Caries Research

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 225-232

  Yanikoǧlu, Funda Çalişkan ^a   Ozturk F ^a   Hayran, O ^a   Analoui, M ^b   Stookey, G K ^b  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Natural carious lesion; Ultrasonic

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL CARIES; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MOLAR TOOTH; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOOTH RADIOGRAPHY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL CARIES ACTIVITY TESTS; HUMANS; MOLAR; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHY, BITEWING; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0034183745     PISSN: 00086568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000016595     Document Type: Article

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