QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION METHOD FOR DENTAL INTEGRITY Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC A61B5/00 

FIELD: medicine; dentistry.

SUBSTANCE: dental integrity is evaluated as a difference of 100 and total products: quantity of extracted and destroyed incisors multiplied by 2.24, quantity of extracted and destroyed canines multiplied by 2.4, quantity of extracted and destroyed premolars multiplied by 3.7, quantity of extracted and destroyed molars multiplied by 4.08, quantity of extracted and destroyed eighth teeth of dentition multiplied by 2.56. Dental integrity 100 to 90 points inclusive is estimated as class I - high level of dental integrity, 90 to 80 points inclusive as class II - satisfactory level of dental integrity, 80 to 70 points inclusive as class III - low level of dental integrity, 70 to 60 points inclusive as class IV - very low level of dental integrity, 60 points and lower as class V - unsatisfactory level of dental integrity.

EFFECT: possibility for express-diagnostic quantitative estimation of physical dental integrity in any age group both individually, and for analysis subpopulation.

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