Influence of examiner experience on clinical performance of visual inspection in detecting and assessing the activity status of caries lesions

Operative Dentistry

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 583-590

  Gimenez, T ^a   Bittar, D G ^a   Piovesan, C ^a   Guglielmi, C A B ^a   Fujimoto, K Y ^a   Matos, R ^a   Novaes, T F ^a   Braga, M M ^a   Mendes, F M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL PROCEDURE; DENTAL STUDENT; DENTIST; DENTISTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL CARIES ACTIVITY TESTS; DENTISTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY; STUDENTS, DENTAL;

EID: 84890802169     PISSN: 03617734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2341/12-067-C     Document Type: Article

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