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From: Negligible therapeutic impact, false-positives, overdiagnosis and lead-time are the reasons why radiographs bring more harm than benefits in the caries diagnosis of preschool children

Fig. 4

Decision tree focused on the dental surfaces with the indication of non-operative treatment according to the visual inspection (Fig. 2, pathway b). Italicized numbers indicate the number of surfaces. Unformatted numbers indicated the frequency in relation to the total number of surfaces (n = 4383), and figures in parenthesis are the 95% confidence intervals adjusted by the cluster

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