Knowledge and Use of Caries Detection Methods among Dental Students and Dental Practitioners in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Table 4

Reported knowledge of advanced diagnostic methods.

Method	None	Little	Some	Much	Very much
ECM (electrical caries monitor)	90 (18.1%)^a	128 (25.8%)^a	111 (22.4%)^a	99 (20.0%)^a	68 (13.7%)^a
QLF (quantitative light-induced fluorescence)	80 (16.1%)^a	118 (23.8%)^a	98 (19.8%)^a	119 (24.0%)^a	81 (16.3%)^a
IRLF (infrared laser fluorescence)	89 (17.9%)^a	131 (26.4%)^a	103 (20.8%)^a	114 (23.0%)^a	59 (11.9%)^a
FOTI (fiber-optic transillumination)	69 (13.9%)^a	105 (21.2%)^a	85 (17.1%)^a	127 (25.6%)^a	110 (22.2%)^a

a,bValues in the same row and subtables not sharing the same subscript are significantly different at in the two-sided test of equality for column proportions. Cells with no subscripts are not included in the test. Tests assume equal variances. Tests are adjusted for all pairwise comparisons within a row of each innermost subtable using the Bonferroni correction.