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8258582

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-1-19
pubmed:abstractText
The detection of small carious lesions at occlusal surfaces is a difficult task, particularly in low caries prevalence populations and individuals. The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of electrical resistance measurements (ERM) in diagnosing small dentinal lesions at one site per occlusal surface in low caries prevalence populations when used adjunct to visual inspection, and to compare the performance of ERM to that of radiographic examination. The occlusal surfaces of 81 third permanent molar teeth extracted from young adolescents were diagnosed by four examiners, who measured the electrical resistance of enamel on a one measurement per surface basis, and furthermore assessed the occlusal surfaces visually and radiographically. The teeth were sectioned for validation by histological examination. The ERM had the highest sensitivity (0.67), and visual inspection had the highest specificity (0.89). ROC analysis showed no statistically significant differences between the performance of the observers when using visual inspection and ERM (z-score test; P > 0.05). One examiner performed statistically significantly better by measuring the electrical resistance of enamel than by radiographic examination (P < 0.05). The average sensitivity and specificity of the three diagnostic systems were used to express the positive and negative predictive values as a function of caries prevalence. At a caries prevalence of 0.2 the negative predictive values for visual inspection, ERM and radiographic examination were 0.88, 0.91 and 0.89, and the positive predictive values were 0.53, 0.48 and 0.42 respectively.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
D
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0300-5712
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
21
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
332-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
Performance of electrical resistance measurements adjunct to visual inspection in the early diagnosis of occlusal caries.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Cariology and Endodontology, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study