Table 2 Mean (95% CI) sensitivity and specificity for all studies, tailored to Egypt and tailored to Germany
ALL | Egypt | Germany | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | Sensitivity | Specificity | n | Sensitivity | Specificity | n | Sensitivity | Specificity | |
Visual detection | |||||||||
advanced occlusal | 94 | 64.6% (57–71) | 90.9% (88–93) | 55 | 75.1% (70–81) | 84.9% (82–89) | 50 | 43.7% (37–51) | 96.5% (95–97) |
all occlusal | 67 | 85.5% (81–89) | 75.3% (70–80) | 51 | 85.8% (82–89) | 77.0% (73–81) | 12 | 49.1% (40–58) | 91.2% (88–94) |
Radiographic detection | |||||||||
advanced occlusal | 44 | 52.3% (44–60) | 89.3% (86–92) | 38 | 54.2% (47–61) | 89.1% (86–92) | 36 | 50.8% (43–59) | 91.4% (88–94) |
all occlusal | 14 | 38.6% (25–54) | 77.8% (70–84) | 11 | 39.7% (25–56) | 80.4% (72–87) | 9 | 36.0% (20–56) | 84.8% (77–90) |
advanced proximal | 22 | 44.4% (38–51) | 95.5% (94–97) | 22 | 44.4% (38–51) | 95.5% (94–97) | 22 | 44.4% (38–51) | 95.5% (94–97) |
all proximal | 38 | 43.2% (36–51) | 90.0% (87–92) | 31 | 40.2% (32–48) | 92.5% (91–94) | 34 | 40.5% (33–48) | 91.7% (90–93) |