Table 5: Correlation between caries occurrence, socio-demographic factors and nutritional status.

	DMFT SCORE		DICHOTOMOUS
Variable	Correlation Coefficient	p-value	Correlation Coefficient	p-value
Age	0.019	0.561	0.028	0.386
Oral Hygiene Score	0.071	0.041*	0.077	0.026*
Weight	-0.24	0.449	-0.22	0.495
Weight for Age	0.008	0.809	0.009	0.782
Height for Age	0.022	0.490	0.021	0.515
Weight for Height	-0.077	0.139	-0.067	0.201
* = Significant
78% of the children had no carious lesion, 8% had 1 carious lesion, 7.6% had 2 carious lesions, 2.1% had 3 carious lesions, 2.6% had 4 carious lesions, 0.4% had 5 carious lesions, 0.3% had 6 carious lesions, 0.3% had 7 carious lesions and 0.2% had 9 carious lesions.