Table 2.
Distribution of traumatic dental injuries in the study population.
| Variables | Children examined n (%) | Traumatic Dental Injury |
OR (95% CI) | p–value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Absent n (%) | Present n (%) | ||||
| Age (years) | |||||
| 12 | 594 (54.0) | 531 (89.4) | 63 (10.6) | 1.12 (0.76, 1.48) | 0.065 |
| 15 | 506 (46.0) | 449 (88.7) | 57 (11.3) | ||
| Gender | |||||
| Boys | 572 (52.0) | 506 (88.5) | 66 (11.5) | 1.24 (0.94, 1.54) | 0.024* |
| Girls | 528 (48.0) | 474 (89.8) | 54 (10.2) | ||
| Type of school | |||||
| Government | 520 (47.3) | 474 (91.2) | 46 (8.8) | 1.48 (1.26, 1.70) | 0.042* |
| Private | 580 (52.7) | 506 (87.2) | 74 (12.8) | ||
| Lip coverage | |||||
| Adequate | 981 (89.2) | 891 (90.8) | 90 (9.2) | 4.64 (3.92, 5.36) | 0.023* |
| Inadequate | 119 (10.8) | 89 (74.8) | 30 (25.2) | ||
| Overjet | |||||
| ≤5.5 mm | 924 (84.0) | 852 (92.2) | 72 (7.8) | 2.98 (2.65, 3.31) | 0.040* |
| >5.5 mm | 176 (16.0) | 128 (72.7) | 48 (27.3) | ||
| Total | 1100 (100) | 980 (89.1) | 120 (10.9) | ||
OR - Odds Ratio, CI- Confidence Interval,
* p<0.05 Statistically significant.