Intra-examiner reliability of epidemiologic registrations of malocclusion.
Intra-examiner consistency in the recording of single traits of malocclusion according to a previously described method was assessed by duplicate registrations on study models of 292 children. The level of agreement was expressed by the consistency ratio and the phi coefficient. A high level of consistency was obtained for most of the malocclusion traits, and it was concluded that the method employed is appropriate also for analyses of interrelations between these traits.
D000293:Adolescent; D003718:Denmark; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D006801:Humans; D008310:Malocclusion / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D008722:Methods; D008954:Models, Biological