Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of the participants.
| Variable Class | Periodontal Disease | Total (n)% |
p Value (Chi-Square Test) |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal (n)% |
Gingivitis (n)% |
Periodontitis (n)% |
||||
| Age | 6–12 years | 20 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 0.006 * |
| 40.8% | 10.5% | 0.0% | 27.5% | |||
| 13–19 years | 10 | 7 | 2 | 19 | ||
| 20.4% | 36.8% | 16.7% | 23.8% | |||
| ≥20 years | 19 | 10 | 10 | 39 | ||
| 38.8% | 52.6% | 83.3% | 48.8% | |||
| Gender | Male | 16 | 9 | 5 | 30 | 0.504 |
| 32.7% | 47.4% | 41.7% | 37.5% | |||
| Female | 33 | 10 | 7 | 50 | ||
| 67.3% | 52.6% | 58.3% | 62.5% | |||
| Location | Urban | 14 | 7 | 4 | 25 | 0.793 |
| 28.6% | 36.8% | 33.3% | 31.3% | |||
| Rural | 35 | 12 | 8 | 55 | ||
| 71.4% | 63.2% | 66.7% | 68.8% | |||
* Statistically significant.