Clinical criteria for diagnosis Area under the curve (AUC) (95% confidence interval) Sensitivity Specificity
Hujoel [19] 0.79 (0.73, 0.84) 0.71 0.74
Beck [20] 0.80 (0.75, 0.86) 0.76 0.72
Machtei [21] 0.81 (0.75, 0.86) 0.83 0.68
Lopez [22] 0.83 (0.79, 0.87) 0.80 0.73
Page and Eke [23] 0.77 (0.71, 0.82) 0.61 0.83
Page and Eke [23] 0.81 (0.75, 0.87) 0.83 0.68
Borrell et al. [24] 0.81 (0.75, 0.86) 0.72 0.76
Table 5: The calculated areas under the ROC curves (AUCs) and their 95% confidence intervals (CI) of self-reported periodontal disease scale for detecting clinically defined periodontal disease using different definitions.