Effects of different manual periodontal probes on periodontal measurements

Journal of Clinical Periodontology

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1032-1041

  Holtfreter, Birte ^a   Alte, Dietrich ^a   Schwahn, Christian ^a   Desvarieux, Moïse ^b,c,d   Kocher, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d EHESP SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (France)

Author keywords

bias correction values; digit preference effect; manual periodontal probe; periodontal attachment loss; probing pocket depth

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DENTAL EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PERIODONTAL POCKET; PERIODONTICS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DENTAL INSTRUMENTS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; PERIODONTAL ATTACHMENT LOSS; PERIODONTAL INDEX; PERIODONTAL POCKET; PERIODONTICS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84867400013     PISSN: 03036979     EISSN: 1600051X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-051X.2012.01941.x     Document Type: Article

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