The knowledge and use of population-based methods for caries detection.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Since the 1980s, a wide variety of methods have been proposed to measure dental caries in the population, demonstrating a lack of consensus regarding the procedure that should be used for this purpose. The current study investigated the methods that are known and used by public oral health researchers and professors as well as the reasons that lead to the choice of a particular method.

Method

In the context of an interview, a questionnaire was administered to public oral health researchers and professors who used caries indices and worked in Salvador and Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil from 2005 to 2015. A quantitative and descriptive approach was applied that adopted the multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) technique to assess the associations among responses.<

SUBMITTER: Castro ALS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6116571 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature