Table 3.
Caries experience and untreated caries by sex, age and location.
| Caries Experience (Overall DMFT*>0**) |
Untreated Caries (D or d > 0) |
|||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
p-value | ||||||
| Characteristic | n | % | n | % | p-value | n | % | n | % | |
| Total (n = 2097) | 1362 | 64.9 | 735 | 35.1 | 1138 | 54.3 | 959 | 45.7 | ||
| Sex | ||||||||||
| Male | 531 | 65.1 | 285 | 34.9 | 0.93 | 439 | 53.8 | 377 | 46.2 | 0.73 |
| Female | 831 | 64.9 | 450 | 35.1 | 699 | 54.6 | 582 | 45.4 | ||
| Education*** | ||||||||||
| None | 212 | 80.3 | 52 | 19.7 | 0.02 | 173 | 65.5 | 91 | 34.5 | 0.17 |
| Any 1° | 353 | 73.2 | 129 | 26.8 | 285 | 59.1 | 197 | 40.9 | ||
| Some 2° | 41 | 64.1 | 23 | 35.9 | 34 | 53.1 | 30 | 46.9 | ||
| 2° or more | 34 | 68.0 | 16 | 32.0 | 28 | 56.0 | 22 | 44.0 | ||
| Age (years) | ||||||||||
| 2–5 | 251 | 62.8 | 149 | 37.3 | <0.001 | 199 | 49.8 | 201 | 50.3 | <0.001 |
| 6–11 | 241 | 56.7 | 184 | 43.3 | 239 | 56.2 | 186 | 43.8 | ||
| 12–19 | 229 | 55.7 | 182 | 44.3 | 177 | 43.1 | 234 | 56.9 | ||
| 20–39 | 300 | 67.4 | 145 | 32.6 | 250 | 56.2 | 195 | 43.8 | ||
| 40+ | 341 | 82.0 | 75 | 18.0 | 273 | 65.6 | 143 | 34.4 | ||
| Location | ||||||||||
| Urban | 335 | 60.9 | 215 | 39.1 | 0.02 | 271 | 49.3 | 279 | 50.7 | 0.006 |
| Rural | 1027 | 66.4 | 520 | 33.6 | 867 | 56.0 | 680 | 44.0 | ||
* T = permanent tooth/t = primary tooth/D = decayed permanent tooth/d = decayed primary tooth/M = missing permanent tooth/m = missing primary tooth
** dmft for ages 2–5/dftDFT for ages 6–11/DMFT for ages 12 and over
*** For those ≥ 20 years of age