Table 4.

Demographics and caries experience of the replication study populations

	Filipinos	Turkish	Guatemalan	Argentinean	Brazilian Curitiba	Brazilian Rio de Janeiro
Sample size	477 (9.7±7.3)	172 (3.8±4.0)	113 (7.1±6.9)	143 (7.1±7.8)	539 (1.4±1.9)	500 (2.4±3.0)
High-caries group	298 (13.3±6.7)	92 (7.2±2.3)	42 (15.0±4.2)	66 (13.0±7.9)	117 (4.4±1.5)	171 (5.8±2.6)
Low-caries group	179 (3.6±2.4)	80 (0)	71 (2.4±2.6)	77 (2.0±2.3)	410 (0.6±0.9)	329 (0.6±0.9)
Females	224	93	70	83	261	236
Males	253	79	43	60	278	264
Mean age ± SD, years	25.8±16.3	5.4±0.8	29.0±10.5	21.7±15.6	12.0±0.5	9.1±3.1
Pedigrees, n	72	unrelated	unrelated	unrelated	unrelated	unrelated

Figures in parentheses indicate mean DMFT ± SD. High and low caries experience was defined based on criterion 1 in table 1.