Question 266 · LDEK · Epidemiology and risk assessment
The significant caries index is used for:
- A. caries risk assessment.
- B. caries susceptibility analysis.
- C. selecting a group of children with a high frequency of caries from the study population.
- D. assessment of tooth decay in the study group in relation to 1/3 of the number of examined people in a given population.
- E. determination of the mean DMFT in a given population of 1/3 of the subjects with the largest number of teeth affected by caries.
Hint
The index was designed to show the caries burden of the most affected part of a population, which an overall mean hides.
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