Periodontal assessment by right- and left-handed examiners: Is there a difference?

Journal of Periodontology

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1099-1103

  Khan, Saba M ^a   Blanchard, Steven B ^a   Dowsett, Sherie A ^a,b   Eckert, George J ^c   Kowolik, Michael J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Examination; Handedness; Periodontal attachment loss; Periodontal pocket

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DENTIST; DISEASE SEVERITY; EFFECT SIZE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PERIODONTAL EXAMINATION; RANDOMIZATION; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ADULT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; INSTRUMENTATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERIODONTICS; PERIODONTITIS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERIODONTAL POCKET; PERIODONTICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33748523500     PISSN: 00223492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1902/jop.2006.050185     Document Type: Article

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