Inter-Examiner Training and Calibration to Assess Dental and Oral Disease in the Elderly

BACKGROUND: Examiner training and calibration in clinical measurement of important variables is carried out to equalize perceptions among examiners. AIM: This study aims obtain intra- inter-examiner perception similarities after measuring dental caries, tooth mobility, periodontal pockets, loss the elderly. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total ten examiners performed measurements loss. The was by a researcher examine 25 elderly respondents. process twice for each respondent who examined researcher. results assessment were compared with one researchers as reference (gold standard). Pearson correlation used determine level intra-examiner agreement, while Cohen’s kappa reliability. RESULTS: intra-rater calibrations I II using showed significant (p = 0.000). almost perfect agreement increased between examination caries (I k 0.829–1.000, 0.871–1.000), mobility 0.886–0.944 0.886–1.000), pocket 0.855–1.000, 0.855–1.000), 0.955–1.000, 0.955–1.000). CONCLUSION: 0.000) reliability (k 0.829-1.000).