Abstract / Description of output
Introduction/Purpose:
Dental disease (DD) is a common pathology in domestic rabbits, often involving adjacent bone and soft tissue structures, nasal and orbital cavities. This study aims to establish a simple CT-based grading system for rabbit DD.
Methods:
For this retrospective study, medical database were evaluated for rabbits with clinically detected dental malocclusion and associated nasal discharge/exophthalmos. Two
observers independently and blindly reviewed CT images of rabbits with DD. A grade of 1 to 3b was used to evaluate every dental quadrant: 1= lesions confined to the tooth, 2= lesions involving the maxillary/mandibular bone, 3a= lesions associated with soft tissues swelling, 3b= soft tissue associated lesions extending to the nasal and/or orbital cavities. The inter-observer agreement was evaluated with weight Kappa test. Patients treatment and history were also recorded and statistically compared to the CT grade with Chisquare test. Statistical significance was accepted for p-values < 0.05.
Results:
53 rabbits with clinically suspected dental disease were included, for a total of 212 dental quadrants being individually evaluated. The study demonstrates a perfect level of interobserver agreement for CT grading (weighted K 0.98, p-value Discussion/Conclusion:
The developed CT grading proved to be a feasible and reliable method to assess dental
disease in rabbits.
Dental disease (DD) is a common pathology in domestic rabbits, often involving adjacent bone and soft tissue structures, nasal and orbital cavities. This study aims to establish a simple CT-based grading system for rabbit DD.
Methods:
For this retrospective study, medical database were evaluated for rabbits with clinically detected dental malocclusion and associated nasal discharge/exophthalmos. Two
observers independently and blindly reviewed CT images of rabbits with DD. A grade of 1 to 3b was used to evaluate every dental quadrant: 1= lesions confined to the tooth, 2= lesions involving the maxillary/mandibular bone, 3a= lesions associated with soft tissues swelling, 3b= soft tissue associated lesions extending to the nasal and/or orbital cavities. The inter-observer agreement was evaluated with weight Kappa test. Patients treatment and history were also recorded and statistically compared to the CT grade with Chisquare test. Statistical significance was accepted for p-values < 0.05.
Results:
53 rabbits with clinically suspected dental disease were included, for a total of 212 dental quadrants being individually evaluated. The study demonstrates a perfect level of interobserver agreement for CT grading (weighted K 0.98, p-value Discussion/Conclusion:
The developed CT grading proved to be a feasible and reliable method to assess dental
disease in rabbits.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 77-77 |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 14 Sept 2022 |
| Event | 2022 EVDI Annual Congress - scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: 14 Sept 2022 → 17 Sept 2022 https://www.evdi-congress.eu/evdi_online_congress |
Conference
| Conference | 2022 EVDI Annual Congress |
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| Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
| City | Edinburgh |
| Period | 14/09/22 → 17/09/22 |
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