DIAGNOdent - An adjunctive diagnostic method for caries diagnosis in epidemiology

Community Dental Health

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 217-221

  Aleksejuniene, Jolanta ^a   Tranaeus S ^b   Skudutyte Rysstad, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Caries diagnosis; DIAGNOdent; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL CARIES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; LASER; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL CARIES ACTIVITY TESTS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; LASERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33845640852     PISSN: 0265539X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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