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Brazilian Journal of Oral Sciences
Piracicaba Dental School - UNICAMP
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Vol. 11, No. 2, 2012, pp. 130-134
Bioline Code: os12026
Full paper language: English
Document type: Research Article
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Brazilian Journal of Oral Sciences, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2012, pp. 130-134

 en Laser fluorescence on dental caries detection under epidemiological setting
da Silva, Renato Pereira; Assaf, Andréa Vieira; Romeiro, Marina Vannucci Mena; Bennazzi, Aline Sampieri Tonello; Brandão, Gustavo Antônio Martins & Carlos Pereira, Antonio

Abstract

Aim: To evaluate reproducibility of visual exam under artificial lighting (VI) and DIAGNOdent™ (DD) exams, their validity and their association (VI+DD) in examining occlusal dental surfaces under epidemiological setting.
Methods: One hundred and sixty five 12-year-old schoolchildren from public schools from Piracicaba, SP, Brazil, were examined under epidemiological setting using different diagnostic criteria (D1, D1+D3 and D3). Kappa statistics was adopted for reproducibility study, while sensibility, specificity and accuracy were adopted for validity study.
Results: The intra/interexaminer Kappa for VI and DD exams at D1, D3 and D1+D3 criteria were 0.88/0.82 and 0.04/0.18, 0.91/0.85 and 0.36/0.35, 0.88/0.83 and 0.30/0.32, respectively. The VI was the most accurate exam at D1 (A=87.38%) and D1+D3 (A=82.45%) criteria, while VI+DD was the most accurate exam at D3 criterion (A=75.29%).
Conclusions: Initial caries lesions can be satisfactorily detected by VI exam, while DD exam improved the VI exam sensitivity at D1 and D3 diagnostic criteria under epidemiological setting.

Keywords
dental caries, epidemiology, dental health surveys, diagnosis, lasers

 
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