ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2020
Diagnostic Validity of Digital Imaging Fiber-Optic Transillumination (DIFOTI) and Near-Infrared Light Transillumination (NILT) for Caries in Dentine.
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- Diagnostic Accuracy Study of Near-Infrared Transillumination for Interproximal Dentinal Caries Detection in Primary Teeth.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Accuracy and Reliability of Intraoral 3D Scans for Diagnostic Evaluations in Nursing Home Residents.Gerodontology · 2025Article
- A Review of Early Childhood Caries: Risk Factors, Management, and Policy Recommendations.Cureus · 2025Review
- Caries lesions diagnosis with deep convolutional neural network in intraoral QLF images by handheld device.BMC oral health · 2024Article
- Determining the Ability of Senior Dental Students to Detect Interproximal Caries Using Different Radiographic Techniques.International journal of dentistry · 2024Article
- Comparison of artificial intelligenceQuantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2023Article
- Use of Digital Diagnostic Aids for Initial Caries Detection: A Review.Dentistry journal · 2023Review
- Recent development of photoacoustic imaging in dentistry: A review on studies over the last decade.The Saudi dental journal · 2023Review
- Accuracy of high definition near infrared transillumination camera in detection of hidden proximal caries.Journal of clinical and experimental dentistry · 2023Article
- Application of a Caries Treatment Difficulty Assessment System in Dental Caries Management.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
The objective of the study is to analyse the available evidence for the validity of the transillumination method in the diagnosis of interproximal caries. Bibliographic searches were carried out in three data bases (PubMed, Embase, Scopus) with the key words "Transillumination AND caries". A total of 11 studies were selected for the qualitative analysis and meta-analysis. In the qualitative analysis, both in vivo and in vitro studies were included. The gold standards were tomography, digital radiography, and clinical visual diagnosis. The meta-analysis determined the sensitivity, specificity, and area below the ROC curve relative to the transillumination method in the diagnosis of caries in dentine. Meta-analysis results obtained for transillumination gave a sensitivity value of 0.69 (confidence interval: 0.54-0.81), a specificity value of 0.89 (confidence interval: 0.61-0.98), while giving an AUC value of 0.79 (confidence interval: 0.67-0.87). Transillumination is a method offering moderate validity in the diagnosis of carious lesions in dentine, there is no strong evidence that may enable us to affirm that transillumination may fully substitute X-rays in the complementary diagnosis of carious lesions.
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