Measurement of oral status and treatment need among subjects with dental prostheses: are the measures less reliable than the prostheses? Part III: Fixed prosthodontics and restorative dentistry.
Poor quality measures of oral status and treatment need have adversely affected clinical and epidemiologic research in prosthodontics. The failure to create reliable and valid indices prevents comparing and pooling data from different studies and obscures meaningful variation within individual studies. Part III of this literature review is focused on problems of measurement of restoration quality and need for treatment in the areas of fixed prosthodontics and restorative dentistry.
Department of Prosthodontics, Boston University, Goldman School of Graduate Dentistry, Mass.
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