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. 2025 May 6;13:e19399. doi: 10.7717/peerj.19399

Table 2. General and clinical characterization.

CF (n = 21) ECC (n = 32) P
Gender
Female 11 (52.4%) 13 (40.6%) χ2= 0.707, d.f.=1
p= 0.4a
Male 10 (47.6%) 19 (59.4)
Mean age ± SD (years) 4.74 ± 0.85 4.49 ± 0.78 p= 0.753b
dmft 0 13.16 ± 3.39

Notes.

a

P of Chi-square test.

b

t-test was adopted to evaluate the association between the age with the caries status.

CF
caries-free
ECC
early childhood caries
dmft
decayed-missing-filled deciduous teeth