The impact of periodontitis exposure misclassification bias from partial-mouth measurements on association with diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Talal S AlshihaybElizabeth A KayeYihong ZhaoCataldo W LeoneBrenda HeatonPublished in: Journal of clinical periodontology (2020)
Exposure misclassification bias due to use of partial-mouth protocols can yield inaccurate conclusions about periodontitis-systemic disease associations, the extent of which may depend on periodontitis classification and the association under study.