Eden Baysal Dental Trauma Index: Face and content validation

Abstract

Background/Aim Recording of traumatic dental injuries in the emergency situation with a simple and easily recordable index that will also enable computer registration is advantageous. The aim of this paper is to present a new index to facilitate recording traumatic dental injuries and assess its face and content validity. Materials and methods The index included information on the type of injury related to the affected structures (enamel, dentin, cement, pulp, periodontal ligament, and alveolar bone) in accordance with Andreasen's classification. In addition, injuries to the alveolar bone and the maturity of the root were included. Fifteen dental trauma experts from 11 different countries rated the codes and content of the “Eden Baysal Dental Trauma Index” using the RAND modified e‐Delphi consensus method. A statement was considered valid after reaching 75% consensus among panel members. Two rounds were necessary for reaching consensus on seven statements and the definition. The last version of the index was then presented online to a feedback group that included 10 experts from five countries to determine the external validity by representative cases. Results The wording of the definition showed 92.8% agreement in the first round. Statements 1 and 2 gave information about the structure of the index and both reached 90% agreement in the first round. Definition and statements from 1 to 7 reached agreement as 93.3%, 93.3%, 100%, 93.3%, 80%, 93.3%, 80%, and 93.3%, respectively, in the second round. Most of the experts in the feedback group reported that the index was useful and user‐friendly. Conclusion After a total of two rounds with the panel members and one round with the feedback group, the “Eden Baysal Dental Trauma Index” was approved for face and content validity and external validity was obtained.

Web-based dental trauma database using Eden Baysal dental trauma index: a turkish multicenter study

“…To our knowledge, this is the first study to describe prevalence and pattern of TDIs using EBDTI in a web-based and multicenter design among Turkish children. This design also enabled to test the performance of EBDTI (22), which is a newly developed index to overcome the disadvantages of the present dental trauma classifications, in an epidemiological study.…”

“…The EBDTI is a useful tool to record the information about TDIs on different levels by means of only 5 digits following the FDI tooth code (22). Different characters as numbers, capital and lower case letters and simple signs rather than only numbers are used to code the information of the injury as digits make it simple to apply.…”

“…The emergency treatment was also recorded for each TDIs. Table 1 presents the summary of codes used in EBDTI (22). It contains all the essential clinical registrations of associated injuries according to Andreasen's classification (20) and in addition also records maturity of the root.…”

“…On the other hand, the maturity of the apex or accompanying bone injuries that play an important role in treatment planning can only be recorded separately. Therefore, an index has the advantage of recording multiple dental tissue injuries and accompanying bone fracture and additional data, such as root maturation as in Eden Baysal Dental Trauma Index (EBDTI) (22).…”

Extension of a novel diagnostic index to include soft tissue injuries: Modified Eden Baysal Dental Trauma Index

“…The recently introduced Eden Baysal Dental Trauma Index (EBDTI) records tooth-specific dental injuries in detail. 14 The encoded descriptions of the index allow concise storage of clinical information regarding the entire dental injury, such as the type and extent of the injury and maturity of the root. This index only records specific tooth injuries without registering STI.…”