Table 5.

Correlation of dmft and pufa scores with oral health-related quality of life

	SOHO-5c				SOHO-5p
	dmft		pufa		dmft		pufa
	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p
Total score	0.252	0.000*	0.25	0.000*	0.442	0.000*	0.36	0.000*
Eating difficulties	0.268	0.000*	0.234	0.000*	0.377	0.000*	0.35	0.000*
Drinking difficulties	0.072	0.243	0.137	0.026	0.229	0.000*	0.20	0.001*
Speaking difficulties	0.027	0.665	0.055	0.371	0.187	0.002*	0.26	0.000*
Playing difficulties	0.000	0.999	0.037	0.546	0.139	0.024*	0.13	0.038*
Sleeping difficulties	0.341	0.000*	0.239	0.000*	0.349	0.000*	0.27	0.000*
Smile avoidance (because of pain)	0.058	0.348	0.046	0.458	0.252	0.000*	0.26	0.000*
Smile avoidance (because of appearance)	0.014	0.820	0.055	0.375	0.228	0.000*	0.11	0.082

^aSpearman’s rank correlation coefficient; *significance at p < .05.