title: Performance of a recent light fluorescence device for detection of occlusal carious lesions in children and adolescents.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the validity and reliability of a recent light fluorescence device, Soprolife®(Sopro-Acteon group) in detecting occlusal caries in children and adolescents and to compare its diagnostic performance with DIAGNOPen®(Kavo).
  
  
  METHODS
  A multi-centre study was carried out to validate Soprolife®in 103 children, aged from 5-15 years, on 310 primary and 433 permanent posterior teeth. The sensitivity (SE), specificity (SP) and the area under the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC) were evaluated using visual International Caries Detection and Assessment System (ICDAS) and radiographic examinations as the gold standards. The performance of the Soprolife®was compared with that of the DIAGNOPen®on the same teeth. The reproducibility was assessed using weighted Kappa coefficient.
  
  
  RESULTS
  When all carious lesions using ICDAS 1-6 were considered, SE, SP and AUC for the Soprolife®were 88.50, 70.73 and 0.84 respectively. The validity was significantly higher for primary teeth (AUC = 0.90) than for permanent teeth (0.80); the validity of the Soprolife®(0.84) was significantly higher than that of DIAGNOPen®(0.80). The inter- and intra-examiner kappa coefficients were 0.87 and 0.85 respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Soprolife®was a valid instrument providing reproducible results, particularly for primary teeth.
authors.affiliation: Paediatric Dentistry Department, UFR Odontology, Nice Sophia Antipolis University (UCA), CHUN, 24 av des Diables bleus, 06357, Nice, France. Michele.muller@unice.fr.|URB2i, EA 4462, Paris Descartes University, Paris, France. Michele.muller@unice.fr.
authors.forename: M
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2811-5339
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Muller-Bolla
authors.affiliation: Paediatric Dentistry Department, UFR Odontology, Nice Sophia Antipolis University (UCA), CHUN, 24 av des Diables bleus, 06357, Nice, France.|MICORALIS EA 7354, Nice Sophia Antipolis University (UCA), Nice, France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Joseph
authors.affiliation: Paediatric Dentistry Department, UFR Odontology, Aix-Marseille-University, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pisapia
authors.affiliation: Public Health Department, UFR Odontology, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France.|EA 4203 Laboratory, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tramini
authors.affiliation: McGill University, Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Dentistry, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, QC, H3T 1E2, Canada.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Velly
authors.affiliation: Restorative Department Marseille, UFR Odontology, Aix-Marseille-University, Marseille, France.|EA 4203 Laboratory, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tassery
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003748:Dental Equipment; D005260:Female; D005453:Fluorescence; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity
keywords: Adolescents; Caries diagnosis; Children; Light fluorescence device