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Table 4 Distribution of professors and researchers by their suggestions and most frequent index criticisms

From: The knowledge and use of population-based methods for caries detection

VARIABLES

Number

Percent

SATISFIED WITH THE DMF

 Yes

2

4.3

 No

45

95.7

SUGGESTIONS

 Simple and easy to understand

17

36.2

 Easy to apply

9

19.1

 Overcome the accommodation of using only the DMF

7

14.9

 Assesses enamel lesions

6

12.8

 Others

8

17.0

CRITICISMS

 New indices should be used

17

36.2

 Should overcome the DMF’s limitations

10

21.3

 Replace the DMF with another index

8

17.0

 Research how to improve indices

7

14.9

 Others

5

10.6