Table 3.

Caries experience in primary and permanent teeth by age group and sex in the migrant and non-migrant groups.

	Mean dmft			Mean DMFT
Age	Non-Migrant	Migrant	p Value	Non-Migrant	Migrant	p Value
6	2.80 ± 2.82	1.42 ± 1.60	Non-migrant *	0.15 ± 0.48	0.07 ± 0.27	Non-migrant *
7	1.53 ± 1.73	2.21 ± 2.21	age vs. dmft	0.07 ± 0.37	0.10 ± 0.31	age vs. DMFT
8	2.24 ± 2.61	2.12 ± 2.72	p = 0.0115	0.27 ± 0.64	0.15 ± 0.61	p = 0.0528
9	1.51 ± 2.00	1.63 ± 1.92		0.23 ± 0.81	0.23 ± 0.88
10	1.88 ± 1.93	1.54 ± 2.38	Migrant *	0.36 ± 0.68	0.50 ± 1.16	Migrant *
11	0.23 ± 0.59	0.36 ± 0.67	age vs. dmft	0.61 ± 1.20	0.60 ± 1.49	age vs. DMFT
12	0.71 ± 0.95	0.6 ± 0.89	p = 0.2556	0.76 ± 1.20	0.38 ± 1.17	p = 0.6618
Total	1.73 ± 2.18 †	1.68 ± 2.14	p = 0.6400 †	0.32 ± 0.81	0.29 ± 0.95	p = 0.2555 †
Sex †
Boys	1.89 ± 2.50	1.81 ± 2.20		0.26 ± 0.74	0.27 ± 0.80
Girls	1.58 ± 1.83	1.51 ± 2.08		0.37 ± 0.87	0.31 ± 1.08
	p = 0.9966 †	0.3829 †		0.3619 †	0.5974 †

* Kruskal–Wallis test. ^† Mann–Whitney test.