Table 7: Association between dental caries of children and their salivary MS counts

		Children of nonworking mothers				Children of nonworking mothers				Overall		Overall
MS score		Defs = 0		Defs > 0		Defs = 0		Defs > 0		Defs = 0		Defs > 0
0		8		4		18		1		26		5
1		6		31		6		24		12		55
2		0		1		0		1		0		2
p-value			0.003, significant				<0.001, significant
Spearman CC, p-value			0.482, <0.001, significant				0.644,<0.001, significant

CC, correlation coefficient