Primary study · included by 1 review

A clinical and microbiological study of deep carious lesions during stepwise excavation using long treatment intervals.

Bjorndal 1997 · Bjørndal L, Larsen T, Thylstrup A · Caries research · 1997

PubMed 9353579 doi:10.1159/000262431Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Reliability of colour and hardness clinical examinations in detecting dentine caries severity: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Non-Cochrane · DTA · 2019 · cited as Bjorndal 1997 · Table 1; Table 3; References [19]

Outcome this study informs	Pooled effect	Evidence	Certainty
total microbial load (log10 CFU) color contrast: black vs dark brown/light brown/yellow vs hardness contrast: soft vs medium/hard	no estimate extracted	1 study · 59 participants	Ungraded
Discriminant power for caries severity: mean difference in log10 CFU (microbial load) between lesion categories Colour clinical examination (visual shade categorization: yellow, light brown, dark brown, black) vs Hardness clinical examination (tactile texture categorization: soft, medium/leathery, hard)	WMD -3.867 [-4.461, -2.874]	2 studies	Ungraded
Discriminant power for caries severity: mean difference in log10 CFU (microbial load) between lesion categories Colour clinical examination (visual shade categorization: yellow, light brown, dark brown, black) vs Hardness clinical examination (tactile texture categorization: soft, medium/leathery, hard)	WMD -4.446 [-5.241, -3.650]	2 studies	Ungraded
Discriminant power for caries severity: mean difference in log10 CFU (microbial load) between lesion categories Colour clinical examination (visual shade categorization: yellow, light brown, dark brown, black) vs Hardness clinical examination (tactile texture categorization: soft, medium/leathery, hard)	WMD -0.067 [-1.877, 1.743]	2 studies	Ungraded
Discriminant power for caries severity: mean difference in log10 CFU (microbial load) between lesion categories Colour clinical examination (visual shade categorization: yellow, light brown, dark brown, black) vs Hardness clinical examination (tactile texture categorization: soft, medium/leathery, hard)	Only one study (Beighton et al.) permitted this comparison: the mean log10 CFU difference was 2.32 for the colour contrast (black vs rest) versus 3.72 for the hardness contrast (soft vs medium/hard); hardness appeared…	1 study	Ungraded
Discriminant power for caries severity: mean difference in log10 CFU (microbial load) between lesion categories Colour clinical examination (visual shade categorization: yellow, light brown, dark brown, black) vs Hardness clinical examination (tactile texture categorization: soft, medium/leathery, hard)	WMD -4.741 [-4.979, -4.502]	2 studies	Ungraded
Discriminant power for caries severity: mean difference in log10 CFU (microbial load) between lesion categories Colour clinical examination (visual shade categorization: yellow, light brown, dark brown, black) vs Hardness clinical examination (tactile texture categorization: soft, medium/leathery, hard)	WMD -3.369 [-3.595, -3.143]	2 studies	Ungraded

1 including review in total.