Caries risk assessment: Methods available to clinicians for caries detection

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 265-273

  Tranæus, Sofia ^a   Shi, Xie Qi ^a   Angmar Månsson, Birgit ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Caries; Caries risk; Quantification

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

DENTAL CARE; DENTAL CARIES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE; FLUOROMETRY; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; INFRARED RADIATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOOTH RADIOGRAPHY;

DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL CARIES ACTIVITY TESTS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FLUORESCENCE; FLUOROMETRY; HUMANS; INFRARED RAYS; RADIOGRAPHY, BITEWING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSILLUMINATION;

EID: 23944510744     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.2005.00234.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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