Table 3.

Age and gender wise differences in the oral health status of the study participants

Variable	Category	Gender		P	Age group				P
		Male n (%)	Female n (%)		18-30 n (%)	31-40 n (%)	41-50 n (%)	51 and above n (%)
Subject wise CPI SCORE†	0	17 (7.4%)	29 (13%)	0.013*	25 (29.7%)	11 (7.2%)	8 (5.9%)	2 (2.5%)	0.001*
	1	51 (22.2%)	67 (30.1%)		44 (52.3%)	39 (25.6%)	29 (21.4%)	6 (7.5%)
	2	113 (49.3%)	96 (43.2%)		12 (14.2%)	88 (57.8%)	62 (45.9%)	47 (58.7%)
	3	48 (20.9%)	30 (13.5%)		3 (3.5%)	14 (9.2%)	36 (26.6%	25 (31.2%)
Mean OHI-S (SD)‡		2.41 (0.83)	2.29 (0.64)	0.086	1.7 (0.31)	1.93 (0.54)	2.68 (1.05)	3.27 (1.81)	0.001*
Mean DMFT (SD)‡		4.73 (2.1)	4.6 (2.26)	0.52	3.08 (0.93)	3.76 (1.62)	5.41 (2.18)	6.75 (4.80)	0.001*

^†Chi-square test; ^‡Independent samples t-test for dichotomous independent variable and One-way analysis of variance for multichotomous independent variable; P≤0.05 considered statistically significant; * denotes statistical significance