Table 2.

Dental caries and odontogenic infections according to weight status and stunting in children from Cambodia, Indonesia and Lao PDR at age 6–7 years and at age 8–9 years

	Dental caries (mean ± sd)				Odontogenic infections (mean ± sd)
	Underweight	Normal weight	Overweight	P a	Underweight	Normal weight	Overweight	P a
	dt at baseline (age 6–7)				pufa at baseline (age 6–7)
Cambodia (n = 53 | 538 | 21)	11.7 ± 4.7	9.6 ± 4.4	8.6 ± 4.2	0.004	3.1 ± 2.4	2.5 ± 2.4	1.7 ± 2.2	0.033
Indonesia (n = 45 | 441 | 79)	9.3 ± 5.0	8.3 ± 4.4	6.3 ± 4.5	< 0.001	3.6 ± 2.9	3.3 ± 3.1	2.5 ± 3.1	0.007
Lao PDR (n = 41 | 562 | 35)	8.8 ± 5.2	7.2 ± 4.8	6.5 ± 4.4	0.094	1.8 ± 2.1	1.8 ± 2.3	2.1 ± 3.2	0.997
	DT at follow-up (age 8–9)				PUFA at follow-up (age 8–9)
Cambodia (n = 67 | 372 | 26)	1.4 ± 1.4	1.1 ± 1.3	0.7 ± 1.2	0.030	0.1 ± 0.5	0.1 ± 0.4	0.1 ± 0.3	0.985
Indonesia (n = 37 | 335 | 109)	0.9 ± 1.3	0.6 ± 0.9	0.4 ± 0.8	0.176	0.2 ± 0.6	0.1 ± 0.4	0.1 ± 0.3	0.751
Lao PDR (n = 45 | 427 | 46)	0.8 ± 1.1	0.6 ± 1.1	0.5 ± 1.0	0.537	0.1 ± 0.3	0.1 ± 0.4	0.1 ± 0.3	0.987
	Not stunted	Stunted		P b	Not stunted	Stunted		P b
	dt at baseline (age 6–7)				pufa at baseline (age 6–7)
Cambodia (n = 409 | 203)	9.6 ± 4.3	10.2 ± 4.8		0.058	2.5 ± 2.3	2.6 ± 2.5		0.992
Indonesia (n = 478 | 86)	7.9 ± 4.4	9.6 ± 4.6		0.002	3.0 ± 3.0	4.1 ± 3.6		0.010
Lao PDR (n = 377 | 261)	6.9 ± 4.8	7.8 ± 4.9		0.018	1.8 ± 2.2	1.9 ± 2.5		0.666
	DT at follow-up (age 8–9)				PUFA at follow-up (age 8–9)
Cambodia (n = 316 | 147)	1.1 ± 1.4	1.0 ± 1.3		0.496	0.1 ± 0.4	0.1 ± 0.2		0.316
Indonesia (n = 399 | 79)	0.5 ± 0.9	0.7 ± 1.1		0.485	0.1 ± 0.4	0.1 ± 0.5		0.867
Lao PDR (n = 357 | 160)	0.7 ± 1.2	0.5 ± 0.9		0.294	0.1 ± 0.5	0.1 ± 0.3		0.820

^aKruskall Wallis Test, ^b Mann Whitney U-Test