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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Oper Dent. 2010 Jul–Aug;35(4):389–396. doi: 10.2341/09-363-C

Table 3.

Distribution of caries lesions showing concordance between pre- and post-operative depth assessments.

Lesion Depth Posterior One-surface Posterior Multi-surface Anterior One-surface Anterior Multi-surface Total
O M or D B or L M/O/D/B/L M or D B or L I M/D/B/L/I
E1 [N (%)] 53 (4%) 1 (0%) 27 (4%) 25 (2%) 3 (1%) 15 (6%) 1 (5%) 10 (2%) 135 (2%)
E2 [N (%)] 178 (13%) 35 (3%) 75 (11%) 67 (5%) 18 (6%) 41 (15%) 2 (11%) 29 (7%) 445 (8%)
D1 [N (%)] 731 (55%) 597 (55%) 424 (61%) 658 (45%) 208 (65%) 154 (58%) 11 (58%) 211 (47%) 2994 (53%)
D2 [N (%)] 291 (22%) 332 (30%) 142 (21%) 461 (32%) 68 (21%) 43 (16%) 3 (16%) 134 (30%) 1474 (26%)
D3 [N (%)] 70 (5%) 128 (12%) 23 (3%) 246 (17%) 23 (7%) 14 (5%) 2 (11%) 61 (14%) 567 (10%)
Total [N (%)] 1323 (100%) 1093 (100%) 691 (100%) 1457 (100%) 320 (100%) 267 (100%) 19 (100%) 445 (100%) 5615 (100%)

O: occlusal; M: mesial; D: distal; B: buccal/facial; L: lingual/palatal; and I: incisal tooth surfaces. Percentages are within columns for each type of caries lesion.