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The examiner reliability was assessed by the gold standard examiner who re-examined 72 students (6% of all students examined).
The examiner was trained by a TMD specialist calibrated in RDC/TMD examination to a gold standard examiner, which is an additional strength.
Three orofacial pain specialists (NC, LF, BHM) and two DDS undergoing specialist training in orofacial pain (SO, SL), who were repeatedly calibrated to a gold standard examiner (ME) in the RDC/TMD examination during one day, performed the study.
One calibrated examiner against a "gold standard" examiner performed all the clinical examinations in a single blind to case-control status of the study participants, as the examiner was masked of obstetric data.
Ten per cent of the children were re-examined to record intra-examiner consistency, and the gold standard examiner undertook five joint dental inspections with each of the six study examiners.
Primary and back-up examiners and recorders from all three clinical centers participated in a four-day calibration session with a gold standard examiner and were certified by the DCC prior to the first baseline examinations.
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The 14 examiners whose clinical data were compared to the gold standard examiners reported high levels of agreement for tooth presence, missing, decayed or filled teeth, and for pre-cavitated lesions (ICC values ranged 0.8 to 0.9; Table 2).
The examiner was trained in this procedure by an orofacial pain specialist with vast experience of the RDC/TMD examination (ME), and who has also been calibrated to a gold-standard examiner (Thomas List).
Finally, the clinical examination of the temporomandibular region according to the RDC/TMD Axis I protocol was performed by one examiner (A A-K), trained in this procedure by an orofacial pain specialist (Malin Ernberg; calibrated to a gold-standard examiner (Thomas List)).
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