Case History And Clinical Diagnosis in Periodontics INDIAN DENTAL ACADEMY Leader in Continuing Dental Education www.indiandentalacademy.com| Terminology = Case History: a planned professional conversation which enables the patient to communicate his/her symptoms and fears to the clinician and recorded in the patients own words as to obtain an insight into the nature of the patient’s illness and his/her attitude to them. = Diagnosis: The correct determination, discriminative estimation and logical appraisal of the conditions found during examination as evidenced by signs and symptoms of health and disease. www.indiandentalacademy.com| Principles of Diagnosis = Specificity: the ability of a test or observation to clearly differentiate one disease from another = Sensitivity: the ability of a test or observation to detect the disease whenever it is present = Predictive Value: the probability that the test result (i.e. the proportion of true positive results and true negative results combined) agrees with the disease status www.indiandentalacademy.com