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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Public Health Dent. 2012 Feb 7;72(2):172–175. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-7325.2012.00315.x

Table 1.

Tooth-Level Inter-examiner and Intra-examiner Agreement from Clinical Examination and Photographs for Fluorosis of the Maxillary Incisors.

Examiner #1 (clinical exam n=40) Examiner #2 (clinical exam n=40)*
No fluorosis (FRI=0,1) Definitive fluorosis (FRI=2,3) Agreement Kappa
No fluorosis 114 13 87% 0.59
Definitive fluorosis 7 20
Examiner #1 (photographs n = 200) Examiner #3 (photographs n=200)
No fluorosis (FRI=0,1) Definitive fluorosis (FRI=2,3) Agreement Kappa
No fluorosis 552 79 87% 0.64
Definitive fluorosis 27 142
Examiner #3 First assessment (photographs n=61) Examiner #3 second assessment (photographs n =61)
No fluorosis (FRI=0,1) Definitive fluorosis (FRI=2,3) Agreement Kappa
No fluorosis 139 10 83% 0.71
Definitive fluorosis 32 63
*

Note that some teeth were not scored during the clinical examination because they were missing or incompletely erupted.