‘Weights’ - the relative impact of factors
The factors included in the Cariogram have been given different ‘weights’. This means that the key factors, which support the development of caries, or resist caries, have a stronger impact than the less important factors when the program calculates the ‘Chance to avoid new cavities’. The factors are also weighted in relation to each other. Thus, different factors have different ‘weights’ in different situations and the number of combinations of factors is enormous.