[Table/Fig-5]:

National surveys carried out in India to assess the oral health status of different states of India.

Author	Year	Place	Findings
Mathur B and Talwar as a part of National Oral Health Survey aided by Dental Council of India, New Delhi [15].	2002-2003	A three-stage sampling design was adopted to select 210 rural and 110 urban subjects in each of the age groups, viz. 5, 12, 15, 35-44, 65-74 years, from each homogeneous region comprising of a number of districts of each state and on the basis of geographical factors used by the Planning Commission. CPI index was used for disease assessment.	The prevalence reported was 57%, 67.7%, 89.6% and 79.9% in the age groups 12, 15, 35-44 and 65-74 years, respectively.
Shah N et al., [16] A multicentric study under the Directorate General of Health and as a collaborative programme between World Health Organization and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.	2005	3,200 samples of age group 12, 15, 35-44 and 65-74 years from total of 22,400 persons in rural and urban areas of the selected districts of Arunachal Pradesh, Delhi, Maharashtra, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Orissa and Uttar Pradesh.	The highest prevalence in 65-74 years group was recorded in Maharashtra (96%), followed by Orissa (90%), Delhi (85.5%), Rajasthan (75%), Uttar Pradesh (68%) and Puducherry (55%).