Baelum V, Papapanou P N
Department of Periodontology, Royal Dental College, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol. 1996 Dec;24(6):367-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.1996.tb00880.x.
This paper discusses the purposes of collecting epidemiological data on periodontal disease, and concludes that the severe shortcomings of the CPITN makes it unsuited as a tool for assessing the prevalence and severity of periodontal disease.