Table 2.
Proximal factors associated with high dental caries in adults, Brazil, 2010.
| Proximal factors | Cases (DMFT ≥ 14) n = 180(%) |
Controls (DMFT < 14) n = 180(%) |
Unadjusted odds ratio (95% CI) |
Adjusted odds ratio (95% CI) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Use of oral health services | |||||
| Regular use * | |||||
| Yes | 75 (41.9) | 49 (27.4) | 1.9 (1.2–3.0) | 1.8 (1.1–3.2) | |
| No | 104 (58.1) | 130 (72.6) | 1 | 1 | |
| Visit to dentist in previous 12 months* | |||||
| Yes | 105 (59.0) | 93 (52.8) | 1 | ||
| No | 73 (41.0) | 83 (47.2) | 0.8 (0.5–1.2) | ||
| Behavior | |||||
| Food preference * | |||||
| Salty | 129 (80.1) | 140 (83.8) | 1 | ||
| Sweet | 32 (19.9) | 27 (16.2) | 1.3 (0.7–2.3) | ||
| Daily frequency of sugar intake | |||||
| Up to 4 times | 163 (90.6) | 172 (95.6) | 1 | ||
| More than 4 times | 17 (9.4) | 8 (32.0) | 2.2 (0.9–5.3) | ||
| Daily use of dental floss * | |||||
| Yes | 127 (71.8) | 115 (63.9) | 1 | ||
| No | 50 (28.2) | 65 (36.1) | 0.7 (0.5–1.1) | ||
| Use of toothpaste * | |||||
| Yes | 158 (96.3) | 157 (99.4) | 1 | ||
| No | 6 (3.7) | 1 (0.6) | 6.0 (0.7–50.1) | ||
* Presence of missing data. The SPSS default was used to deal with missing data: a case that has a user-missing value for any variable named is omitted from the computation of the analyses.