| CAOD | Cariados, ausentes, obturados (caries index for permanent dentition; Spanish equivalent of the DMFT index) |
| cod | Lower-case caries index applied to the primary (deciduous) dentition |
| DMF | Decayed, missing, and filled (teeth) index |
| DMFT | Decayed, missing, and filled teeth |
| GDPR | General Data Protection Regulation |
| IQR | Interquartile range |
| LED | Light-emitting diode |
| LMICs | Low- and middle-income countries |
| OHI-S | Simplified Oral Hygiene Index |
| SD | Standard deviation |
| SPSS | Statistical Package for the Social Sciences |
| STROBE | Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology |
| WHO | World Health Organization |