Practice article (BDJ 2012; 215: 115–120)

'Practitioner evaluation of a novel online integrated oral health and risk assessment tool: a practice pilot'

In the above practice article, in Table 1 entitled 'Scoring method and descriptors for DEPPA 'Oral Health Scores'' the 'Tooth health' score descriptors should have read as follows:

0 = severe problems (>30% of teeth need restoring)

6 = moderate problems (10-30% of teeth need restoring)

12 = mild problems (up to 10% of teeth need restoring)

18 = no caries and sound restorations

24 = no caries and no previous restorations

The authors apologise for any confusion caused.