Table 2.

Oral status of the participants over the whole follow-up period.

	Follow-Up Period
Variables	Baseline MS ± SD	1-Year MS ± SD	3-Year MS ± SD	10-year MS ± SD	p-Value
Dental caries a
D-T	0.20 ± 0.41	0.25 ± 0.12	0.31 ± 0.14	0.40 ± 1.30	1.00
M-T	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	1.00
F-T	0.93 ± 1.10 b	1.05 ± 0.19	1.4 ± 0.22	3.20 ± 2.43 b	0.013 b
DMF-T	1.13 ± 1.25 b	1.3 ± 1.15	1.71 ± 1.43	3.60 ± 2.30 b	0.003 b
Presence of dental plaque c
PI	2.53 ± 0.50	2.73 ± 0.446 b	2.00 ± 0.638 b	2.47 ± 0.62	0.723 < 0.001 b

^a Wilcoxon test. ^b significant difference between different follow-up periods. ^c Mann–Whitney U test. MS ± SD—mean score ± standard deviation.