Relating visual and radiographic ranked scoring systems for occlusal caries detection to histological and microbiological evidence

Operative Dentistry

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 231-237

  Ricketts, D N J ^a,d   Ekstrand, K R ^b   Kidd, E A M ^c   Larsen, T ^b  

^a DUNDEE DENTAL HOSPITAL AND SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; DENTIN; ENAMEL; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLAR TOOTH; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS; TOOTH CERVIX; TOOTH DISCOLORATION; TOOTH DISEASE; TOOTH RADIOGRAPHY;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL ENAMEL; DENTIN; HUMANS; MOLAR, THIRD; RADIOGRAPHY, BITEWING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOOTH CERVIX; TOOTH DEMINERALIZATION; TOOTH DISCOLORATION;

EID: 0036584640     PISSN: 03617734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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