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Association between ‘low socioeconomic status-SES’ and caries experience (DMFT). The pooled effect estimates from the random-effects meta-analysis are shown. Heterogeneity was assessed using the χ2 test and I2 statistics. The forest plots comparing caries in adults with ≥22.4% of the population had low socioeconomic status SES-low compared with <22.4% of the population with low SES-higher.
