Treatment recommendations for individual
teeth made by 15 dentists for the same patient
n For only one of the 13 teeth receiving at least
one rec for treatment was there “perfect
agreement” among the 15 examining dentists
n Of course, perfect agreement not to
recommend treatment was achieved for 15
additional teeth not shown in the table
n For all but one of the teeth with multiple recs
for tx, there is disagreement about whether
caries is the principal reason for treatment
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