Effectiveness of Visual-Tactile Examination and DIAGNOdent Pen in Detecting Early Enamel Caries and Its Remineralisation: An In Vitro Study

Table 4

Spearman’s correlation coefficients, AUROC curve, specificity, and sensitivity for the mode ICDAS scores, DDPen when compared with the level D1, D2, and D3 Downer’s histologic level.

	Histo score		Standard error	(95% CI)	Standard error	Sensitivity	Specificity
ICDAS II code 0	D1	.692	.053	.811 (.726-.897)	.044	.623	.284
DDPen cutoff 0-13	D1	.950	.028	.972 (.935-1.000)	.034	.943	.194
ICDAS II codes 1 and 2	D2	.769	.059	.667 (.557-.776)	.056	.667	.333
DDPen cutoff 14-20	D2	.854	.050	.894 (.810-.978)	.043	.788	.069
ICDAS II code 3	D3	.601	.067	.721 (.605-.837)	.059	.441	.023
DDPen cutoff >21	D3	.774	.058	.838 (.740-.937)	.050	.676	.023

: area under receiver-operator curve; CI: confidence interval; : Downer’s classification; : Spearman’s coefficient; : sensitivity; : specificity.