Table 2.
Severity of dental caries in Taiwan, 2000–2012.
| Year | Total population | Severity of dental caries |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mild (1–2 visits/year) | Moderate (3–12 visits/year) | Severe (ENDO or >12 visits/year) | |||||
| 2000 | 52,348 | 3830 | 7.32% | 2447 | 4.67% | 3814 | 7.29% |
| 2001 | 50,583 | 4002 | 7.91% | 2675 | 5.29% | 4029 | 7.97% |
| 2002 | 49,713 | 3978 | 8.00% | 2833 | 5.70% | 4274 | 8.60% |
| 2003 | 47,229 | 3727 | 7.89% | 2901 | 6.14% | 4078 | 8.63% |
| 2004 | 46,131 | 4486 | 9.72% | 3423 | 7.42% | 4441 | 9.63% |
| 2005 | 43,742 | 4420 | 10.10% | 3120 | 7.13% | 4400 | 10.06% |
| 2006 | 40,373 | 4269 | 10.57% | 2916 | 7.22% | 3754 | 9.30% |
| 2007 | 38,186 | 4046 | 10.60% | 2841 | 7.44% | 3434 | 8.99% |
| 2008 | 36,934 | 3901 | 10.56% | 2827 | 7.65% | 3445 | 9.33% |
| 2009 | 35,937 | 3893 | 10.83% | 2803 | 7.80% | 3171 | 8.82% |
| 2010 | 34,896 | 3906 | 11.19% | 2708 | 7.76% | 3093 | 8.86% |
| 2011 | 34,228 | 3845 | 11.23% | 2726 | 7.96% | 3022 | 8.83% |
| 2012 | 31,633 | 3893 | 12.31% | 2791 | 8.82% | 2756 | 8.71% |
| p-value | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | ||||
p-value for trend test.