Validation of a Swiss method of caries prediction in Dutch children

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 341-345

  Van Palenstein Helderman, Wim H ^a,b   Mulder, Jan ^a   Van't Hof, Martin A ^a   Truin, Gerrit Jan ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b WHO Centre Dentistry 117   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Caries prediction; Caries risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHILD; DENTAL CARIES; FORECASTING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; METHODOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREVALENCE; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWITZERLAND; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; CHILD; DENTAL CARIES; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; NETHERLANDS; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0042776284     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.2001.290503.x     Document Type: Article

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