The impact of ICDAS on occlusal caries treatment recommendations for high caries risk patients: an in vitro study

BMC Oral Health

Table 4 The correlation between mode ICDAS score and histological criteria at caries into dentin cut-off point (scores 2–4)

	ICDAS-D1^a	ICDAS-D2^b	ICDAS-D3^c
Sensitivity	0.91	0.51	0.31
Specificity	0.49	0.97	0.99
Area under the ROC curve (Az)	0.70^*	0.74^*	0.65^*
95% confidence interval	0.63–0.77	0.68–0.79	0.59–0.72
Standard error	0.04	0.03	0.03
Spearman’s correlation coefficient	0.45^*	0.48^*	0.35^*

^aICDAS D1 = 0 sound/enamel carious lesion and codes 1–6 dentin carious lesion
^bICDAS D2 = codes 0–2 sound/enamel carious lesion and codes 3–6 dentin carious lesion
^cICDAS D3 = codes 0–3 sound/enamel carious lesion and codes 4–6 dentin carious lesion
^*Correlation is significant (p < 0.05)

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