Effect of patient age awareness on diagnostic agreement of chronic or aggressive periodontitis between clinicians; a pilot study
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- 作者：Sarah Oshman ; Edgard El Chaar ; Yoonjung Nicole Lee ; Steven Engebretson
- 刊名：BMC Oral Health
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：17
- 期：1
- 全文大小：1,308 KB
- 刊物主题：Dentistry; Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1472-6831
- 卷排序：17
文摘
BackgroundThe aim of this pilot study was to test whether diagnostic agreement of aggressive and chronic periodontitis amongst Board Certified Periodontists, is influenced by knowledge of a patient’s age. In 1999 at the International World Workshop age was removed as a diagnostic criteria for aggressive periodontitis. The impact of this change on the diagnostic reliability amongst clinicians has not yet been assessed.