Significance of Clinical Signs in Diagnosing Each Variant of Periapical Pathology: A Random Population Study in 1000 Patients
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Objectives: To find out the accurate prevalence of periapical pathology and to see the significance of the clinical signs in diagnosing each variant of periapical pathology. Methods: A study of 1000 patients chosen consecutively, who visited the department of oral radiology, for intraoral periapical radiographs. The clinical data of all the variants of periapical pathology were registered in a specific clinical form followed by intraoral periapical radiographs of the same site. All the data were entered into Microsoft Excel and analyzed using Chi-square test setting a value of p < 0.05 for the prevalence and distribution of periapical pathology and Z-test setting a value of p < 0.05 to see the significance of the clinical signs in diagnosing each variant of periapical
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