id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_4hakggfkyzdk3nalhc3qeyqneu Ali Golkari A comparison of photographic, replication and direct clinical examination methods for detecting developmental defects of enamel 2011.0 7 .pdf application/pdf 5646 533 51 direct clinical examination methods for detecting Background: Different methods have been used for detecting developmental defects of enamel (DDE). aimed to compare photographic and replication methods with the direct clinical examination method for proportion tests were used to compare results obtained by the photographic and replication methods with those The number of subjects with hypoplastic DDE detected by the replication method was not significantly higher than that detected by direct clinical examination (P = 0.166), but the replication detected 2.3 times more hypoplastic DDE lesions than the direct examination (P < 0.001). Conclusion: The photographic method was much more sensitive than direct clinical examination in detecting DDE clinical examination method to detect DDE in children's of DDE were included in comparison of direct examination and photographic methods. Table 3 Comparison of direct examination and photographic methods in detecting all types of DDE and in detecting the photographic and direct clinical examination methods. ./cache/work_4hakggfkyzdk3nalhc3qeyqneu.pdf ./txt/work_4hakggfkyzdk3nalhc3qeyqneu.txt