FULL DENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT METHOD Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC A61B5/00 

FIELD: medicine; dentistry.

SUBSTANCE: dental health is evaluated as a difference of 100 and total product: index of total carious, filled, extracted teeth of a person multiplied by 1.0, caries intensity level multiplied by 25.0, health index multiplied by 4.2, papillary marginal alveolar index multiplied by 0.2, complex parodontal index multiplied by 2.4. Dental health assessment 100 to 80 points inclusive is defined as class I - high level of dental health, 80 to 60 points inclusive as class II - satisfactory level of dental health, 60 to 40 points inclusive as class III - low level of dental health, 40 to 20 points inclusive as class IV - very low level of dental health, 20 points and lower as class V - unsatisfactory level of dental health.

EFFECT: possibility for full dental health assessment in any age group both individually, and for analysis subpopulation.

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