title: Reproducibility of an assessment scale of denture quality.
abstract: Assessment of denture quality is important in prosthetic research. The aim of this investigation was to determine the intra- and interexaminer reliability of denture quality assessment. Three groups of patients with full maxillary and mandibular dentures and two dentists participated. The patients in group 1 (n = 195) were examined by the two dentists independently, in group 2 (n = 35) twice by one of the dentists and in group 3 (n = 20) twice by the other dentist. A denture quality scale was constructed containing nine variables. The internal consistency (coefficient alpha) of this scale was 0.60. The intra- and interexaminer reliability was between 0.59 and 0.86. For individual items of this scale these values were between 0.22 and 1.00.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Vervoorn
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Duinkerke
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Luteijn
authors.forename: T K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Bouman
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: van de Poel
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003767:Dental Occlusion, Balanced; D003768:Dental Occlusion, Centric; D003781:Denture Retention; D003778:Dentures / Q000592:standards*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011787:Quality of Health Care