Reliability and discriminatory power of methods for dental plaque quantification

• Main Authors: Daniela Prócida Raggio (Author), Mariana Minatel Braga (Author), Jonas Almeida Rodrigues (Author), Patrícia Moreira Freitas (Author), José Carlos Pettorossi Imparato (Author), Fausto Medeiros Mendes (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: University of São Paulo, 2010-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE: This in situ study evaluated the discriminatory power and reliability of methods of dental plaque quantification and the relationship between visual indices (VI) and fluorescence camera (FC) to detect plaque. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Six volunteers used palatal appliances with six bovine ena...