Correlation and examiner agreement between a new method of plaque scoring and a popular established plaque index, modelled in vitro

Journal of Clinical Periodontology

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1107-1111

  Dababneh, Reem H ^a   Khouri, Antwan T ^a   Smith, Roger G ^b   Addy, Martin ^b  

^a Royal Jordanian Medical Service   (Jordan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Examiner variability; Plaque; Plaque index

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENTAL CARE; HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; TOOTH PLAQUE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENTAL MODELS; DENTAL PLAQUE; DENTAL PLAQUE INDEX; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0036886960     PISSN: 03036979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-051X.2002.291210.x     Document Type: Article

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