Assessment of caries diagnostic thresholds of DMFT, ICDAS II and CAST in the estimation of caries prevalence rate in first permanent molars in early permanent dentition—a cross-sectional study

Table 2 Intra and inter-examiner reproducibility measured by the kappa coefficient using the DMFT, ICDAS II and CAST diagnostic tools

	During calibration exercise			During the clinical examination
	DMFT	ICDAS II	CAST	DMFT	ICDAS II	CAST
Inter examiners
Examiners 1, 2	0.91	0.79	0.90	0.90	0.71	0.90
Intra examiners
Examiner 1	0.90	0.75	0.89	0.93	0.75	0.91
Examiner 2	0.91	0.81	0.92	0.90	0.78	0.90
Examiner 3	0.90	0.79	0.88	0.90	0.70	0.89
Examiner 4	0.92	0.83	0.90	0.92	0.69	0.88

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