Publications by authors named "Emma J O'Keefe"
Evaluation of dental therapists undertaking dental examinations in a school setting in Scotland.
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol
December 2016
Objective: To measure agreement between dental therapists and the Scottish gold-standard dentist undertaking National Dental Inspection Programme (NDIP) examinations.
Methods: A study of interexaminer agreement between 19 dental therapists and the national gold-standard dentist was carried out. Pre-calibration training used the caries diagnostic criteria and examination techniques agreed by the British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry (BASCD).