Table 3.

Dental findings of the participants.

	Rheumatoid arthritis	Control	p* value
The number of teeth remaining (mean ± SD)	22.50 ± 7.065	26.77 ± 3.748	0.005*
The number of missing teeth (mean ± SD)	8.87 ± 7.510	4.70 ± 4.162	0.010*
The number of filled teeth (mean ± SD)	1.87 ± 2.897	2.90 ± 3.111	0.188
The number of root canal treated teeth (mean ± SD)	0.93 ± 1.574	2.00 ± 2.560	0.057
The number of decayed teeth (mean ± SD)	1.37 ± 2.327	1.80 ± 1.955	0.438
The number of teeth with periapical lesions (mean ± SD)	0.47 ± 0.937	0.37 ± 0.850	0.667
No dentures (n)	12	23	0.025*
Removable denture (n)	9	1
Fixed denture (n)	7	5
Total and partial dentures (n)	1	0
Fixed and partial dentures (n)	1	1