Multiple Imputation for Partial Recording Periodontal Examination Protocols.
John S PreisserT ShingB F QaqishKimon DivarisJ BeckPublished in: JDR clinical and translational research (2023)
Partial-mouth sampling, while a resource-efficient strategy for obtaining oral disease estimates, often results in underestimation of periodontitis metrics. Multiple imputation for nonselected periodontal sites produces pseudo-full-mouth data sets that may be analyzed and combined to produce estimates with small bias.