title: Dental survey at school with the purpose to select children with no actual need of dental treatment.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to develop an examination method to select children without from children with need of dental treatment. Furthermore the objective was that these examinations could be performed as a survey at school, without utilizing an expensive and fully equipped dental clinic but still maintain the certainty for the individual not to be at increased risk to be declared false caries-free, in comparison with ordinary examination at a dental clinic. The material comprised 88 children 10-13 years old. The children were subject to a survey-examination at school and a few weeks later at a dental clinic by the same examiner. Initially the children were examined at school by two examiners in order to measure the inter-examiner variability. The results showed that 2 of the 88 examined children (2.3%) were judged false healthy at school examination with respect to caries. The inter-examiner variability in diagnosing caries was greater than the intra-examiner variability between survey at school and examination at the dental clinic.
authors.affiliation: Public Dental Service, Stockholm County Council, Sweden.
authors.forename: U A
authors.initials: UA
authors.lastname: Lundman
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Bolin
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Rangne
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bolin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003363:Cost Control; D019140:Dental Care for Children / Q000191:economics*; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003740:Dental Clinics; D003753:Dental Health Surveys; D005189:False Positive Reactions; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology; D006801:Humans; D015588:Observer Variation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012571:School Dentistry / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013548:Sweden; D014172:Transillumination / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data