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Fig. 7 | BMC Oral Health

Fig. 7

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. 7

Mediation analysis to evaluate if performing a restoration mediates the occurrence of new operative interventions in the surfaces where caries lesions were missed by visual inspection but detected by radiographs (a: direct effect; b: mediated effect). Numbers represent the multilevel logistic regression coefficients (standard errors) adjusted by type of teeth, dental surface, caries experience and child’s age. P value was derived through Sobel test

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