Table 4.

Age distribution among study categories

Categories	Age distribution								P value
	0–5 years		6–10 years		11–15 years		16–18 years
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Allergies and immunologic disease	0	0.0	0	0.0	1	100.0	0	0.0	0.6380
Bone pathology	5	5.0	29	28.7	42	41.6	25	24.8	0.3838
Dermatologic diseases, immunologic	0	0.0	0	0.0	1	50.0	1	50.0	0.8012
Developmental, non-odontogenic cyst	2	18.2	3	27.3	5	45.5	1	9.1	0.3004
Epithelial pathology	0	0.0	5	62.5	0	0.0	3	37.5	0.0431
Odontogenic cysts	4	1.3	79	25.8	113	36.9	110	35.9	1.24E−05
Benign odontogenic tumor	5	5.2	7	7.2	45	46.4	40	41.2	0.0001
Periodontal diseases	2	9.1	6	27.3	9	40.9	5	22.7	0.8884
Periapical diseases	4	8.5	7	14.9	19	40.4	17	36.2	0.4075
Salivary gland pathology	8	11.3	31	43.7	12	16.9	20	28.2	0.0001
Soft tissue tumors	51	11.5	113	25.6	165	37.3	113	25.6	3.48E−05

P < 0.05 indicated a statistically significant difference and they are shown in bold