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Table 4.

Dental caries and oral hygiene status of the study population.

	CF	NC	CL	P value	Pairwise comparison using Bonferroni correction
	(N = 159)	(N = 216)	(N = 366)	P value	Pairwise comparison using Bonferroni correction
VPI percentage, mean (SD)	19.63 (10.39)^a	26.33 (12.98)^b	29.60 (13.41)^c	<.001^*	c > b > a
No. of WSLs, mean (SD) (ICDAS score 2)	0.00 (0.00)^a	3.28 (2.79)^b	4.72 (4.05)^c	<.001^*	c > b > a
No. of decayed surfaces, mean (SD) (ICDAS scores 3 to 7)	0.00 (0.00)^a	0.00 (0.00)^b	6.35 (7.87)^c	<.001^*	c > a = b
No. of filled surfaces, mean (SD) (ICDAS score 8)	0.00 (0.00)^a	0.00 (0.00)^b	0.03 (0.28)^c	.045^*	a = b = c
No. of missing surfaces, mean (SD) (ICDAS score 9)	0.00 (0.00)	0.00 (0.00)	0.02 (0.30)	.358^*
Decayed-missing-filled surfaces score, mean (SD)	0.00 (0.00)^a	0.00 (0.00)^b	6.40 (7.93)^c	<.001^*	c > b > a

The bold values are significant at p<0.05.

^⁎

Independent-samples Kruskal–Wallis test.

CF, caries-free group (no clinical evidence of caries, ie, ICDAS score = 0 on all teeth); CL, children with cavitated carious lesion or lesions with or without simultaneous noncavitated carious lesions (ie, ICDAS score = 3-6 on at least 1 tooth with or without ICDAS score = 2 on any other tooth/teeth); NC, children with only noncavitated carious lesion or lesions in their oral cavity (ie, ICDAS score = 2 on at least 1 tooth); ICDAS, International Caries Detection and Assessment System; VPI, Visible Plaque Index; WSL, white spot lesion.