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| number of new disease cases in a population in a given period of time |
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| number of all cases of a disease (both old and new) that can be identified within a specified population at a given time |
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| degree or amount of disease involvement |
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| %of diseased teeth or sites in person |
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| visual record of plaque distribution, indicates presence or absence of plaque. used in private practice. |
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| Plaque Index (PII) (Silness and Loe) |
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| scores plaque thickness along gingival margin of tooth |
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| Simplified Oral Hygiene Index |
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| measures surface area of plaque |
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| Quigley-Hein Plaque Index |
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| measures surface area of plaque |
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| designed to measure degree of visible inflammation of gingival tissues |
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| measures presence or absence and severity of gingival inflammation |
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| quantifies calculus by location and surface area. |
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| presence of inflammation, pocket formation, and tooth mobility is assesed visually as criteria for numeric scoring of teeth |
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| Assesses probing depths, calculus and gingival bleeding developed by WHO |
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| what term describes the rate of new cases of periodontal disease occurring in a given time period? |
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| an individual has been identified with advanced attachment loss at one point in time. It is highly unlikely (infrequent) that this individual will again experience rapid attachment loss (>3mm) within the next three years? |
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| which indice is best used to monitor a patients plaque control in private dental practice? |
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| what best measures the severity of periodontal disease in a population? |
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| what is not a direct risk factor for periodontal disease? |
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| a risk indicator differs froma risk factr in that there is no casual relationship of the associated characteristic with the disease. Low income and less education are risk indicators for periodontal disease. |
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| according to recent surveys, what percentage of the US adult population has severe periodontal disease? |
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| what describes how the prevalence of gingivitis has changed over the past thirty years? |
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| What describes the prevalence of aggressive periodontitis in the general population? |
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