The validity of proximal caries detection using magnifying visual aids

Caries Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 249-255

  Haak, Rainer ^a,b   Wicht, Michael J ^a   Hellmich, Martin ^b   Gossmann, Andrea ^a   Noack, Michael J ^a  

^a Centre of Dental Medicine   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dental caries; Diagnostic systems; Lenses; Microscopy; ROC curve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; DENTAL CARIES; HUMAN; MICROSCOPY; MOLAR TOOTH; OBSERVER VARIATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PREMOLAR TOOTH; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BICUSPID; DENTAL CARIES; HUMANS; LENSES; MICROSCOPY; MOLAR; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036651306     PISSN: 00086568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000063926     Document Type: Article

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