Accuracy of a 7-Item Patient-Reported Stand-Alone Tool for Periodontitis Screening.

ABSTRACT: Periodontitis is interrelated with various other chronic diseases. Recent evidence suggests that treatment of periodontitis improves glycemic control in diabetes patients and reduces the costs of diabetes treatment. So far, however, screening for periodontitis in non-dental settings has been complicated by a lack of easily applicable and reliable screening tools which can be applied by non-dental professionals. The purpose of this study was to assess the diagnostic accuracy of a short seven-item tool developed by the German Society for Periodontology (DG PARO) to screen for periodontitis by means of patient-reported information. A total of 88 adult patients filled in the patient-reported Periodontitis Risk Score (pPRS; range: 0 points = lowest periodontitis risk; 20 points = very high peri

SUBMITTER: Sekundo C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7830157 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature