An in vitro study of the reliability of DIAGNOdent® measurements

Journal of Oral Rehabilitation

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 895-899

  Kuhnisch J ^a,e   Ziehe, A ^b   Brandstadt A ^c   Heinrich Weltzien, R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Fraunhofer Inst F S   (Germany)

^c Inst Med Stat Computerscience D   (Germany)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^e KaVo Dental GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

DIAGNOdent ; Laser fluorescence measurement; Occlusal caries detection; Reliability; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DENTAL CARIES; DENTIST; DEVICE; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; INSTRUMENT; LASER; MEASUREMENT; MOLAR TOOTH; OBSERVER VARIATION; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TOOTH EXTRACTION; TOOTH OCCLUSION;

DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL CARIES ACTIVITY TESTS; DENTAL OCCLUSION; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; LASERS; MOLAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 5444254830     PISSN: 0305182X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2842.2004.01315.x     Document Type: Article

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