Improved ability of biological and previous caries multimarkers to predict caries disease as revealed by multivariate PLS modelling

• Main Authors: Ericson Thorild (Author), Källestål Carina (Author), Johansson Ingegerd (Author), Nordlund Åke (Author), Sjöström Michael (Author), Strömberg Nicklas (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2009-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Dental caries is a chronic disease with plaque bacteria, diet and saliva modifying disease activity. Here we have used the PLS method to evaluate a multiplicity of such biological variables (n = 88) for ability to predict caries in a...