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In essence, carious lesions can be detected and assessed using visual/tactile and electronic devices. Over the past decades a number of electronic devices have been introduced in response to some of the limitations of traditional methods such as the radiograph and visual/tactile devices. While perhaps suitable for use in the dental clinic, not all electronic devices appear suitable for use in epidemiological surveys. In addition, a number of them have no proven or poor validity and many are not field-proof [1, 2]. Therefore, dental practitioners should not place much reliance on these electronic devices. It means that despite their limitations, caries epidemiology continues to rely predominantly on visual/tactile indices for detecting and assessing carious lesion-related conditions in a field setting [3].