Assessment of periodontitis grade in epidemiological studies using interdental attachment loss instead of radiographic bone loss.

Patrizia WinklerBettina Dannewitz Katrin Nickles Hari C Petsos Peter Eickholz

Published in: Journal of clinical periodontology (2022)

Assignment of periodontitis grade by indirect evidence using BL or CAL using standard root length of the German cohort showed fair to good/moderate agreement. Thus, grade assignment by CAL may be used in epidemiologic studies where radiographs are not available.

Keyphrases

bone loss
case control