Table 5.

Calculated areas under the ROC curves (AUCs) and their 95% confidence interval (95% CI) of self-reported periodontal disease measure for detecting clinically defined periodontitis using different definitions

Clinical criteria for diagnosis	Area under the curve (95% CI)	Sensitivity	Specificity
Hujoel et al.19	0.79 (0.73–0.84)	0.71	0.74
Beck et al.20	0.80 (0.75–0.86)	0.76	0.72
Machtei et al.21	0.81 (0.75–0.86)	0.83	0.68
Lopez et al.22	0.83 (0.79–0.87)	0.80	0.73
Page and Eke23 (moderate)	0.77 (0.71–0.82)	0.61	0.83
Page and Eke23 (severe)	0.81 (0.75–0.87)	0.83	0.68
Borrell et al.24	0.81 (0.75–0.86)	0.72	0.76