Dental caries status of Dai preschool children in Yunnan Province, China

BMC Oral Health

Table 3 Relationship between dental caries experience and the selected independent variables (final model of multi-factor ANCOVA) (N = 743)

Independent variables	Group	Beta	SE	p-value
Gender	Boys	−0.849	0.247	0.001
	Girls^a
Father education	Secondary or below	0.728	0.347	0.036
	Tertiary or above^a
Bottle feeding before sleep	Yes	0.995	0.310	0.001
	No^a
Daily snacking	Yes	0.667	0.260	0.011
Daily snacking	No^a	0.667	0.260	0.011
Visited a dentist	Yes	1.681	0.288	<0.001
	No^a
VPI		12.400	0.429	<0.001
Intercept		−0.322	0.384	0.402

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