Taste hyposensitivity in Japanese schoolchildren

BMC Oral Health

Table 1 Oral health status of subjects by grade and gender

Grade	Variables	Category	Total		Boys		Girls		P-value
Grade	Variables	Category	n	%	n	%	n	%
	DT+dt	0	64	57.7	30	51.7	34	64.2	n.s.
	DT+dt	1+	47	42.3	28	48.3	19	35.8
	FT+ft	0	44	39.6	20	34.5	24	45.3	n.s.
	FT+ft	1+	67	60.4	38	65.5	29	54.7
	Plaque score	0	56	50.5	29	50.0	27	50.9	n.s.
	Plaque score	1+	55	49.5	29	50.0	26	49.1
1^st-3^rd	Gingivitis	0	79	71.2	43	74.1	36	67.0	n.s
1^st-3^rd	Gingivitis	1+	32	28.8	15	25.9	17	32.1
	Area of tongue coating	0,1	53	47.7	31	53.4	22	41.5	n.s
	Area of tongue coating	2+	58	52.3	27	41.5	31	53.4
	Thickness of tongue coating	0,1	67	60.4	41	70.7	26	49.1	0.032
	Thickness of tongue coating	2+	44	39.6	17	29.3	27	50.9
	DT+dt	0	104	82.5	51	81.0	53	84.1	n.s
	DT+dt	1+	22	17.5	12	19.0	10	15.9
	FT+ft	0	45	35.7	22	34.9	23	36.5	n.s
	FT+ft	1+	81	64.3	41	65.1	40	63.5
	Plaque score	0	57	45.2	25	39.7	32	50.8	n.s
	Plaque score	1+	69	54.8	38	60.3	31	49.2
4^th-6^th	Gingivitis	0	66	52.4	27	42.9	39	61.9	0.049
4^th-6^th	Gingivitis	1+	60	47.6	36	57.1	24	38.1
	Area of tongue coating	0,1	41	46.0	47	31.7	21	33.3	n.s
	Area of tongue coating	2+	85	54.0	13	68.3	42	66.7
	Thickness of tongue coating	0,1	58	46.0	17	42.9	31	49.2	n.s
	Thickness of tongue coating	2+	68	54.0	43	57.1	32	50.8
	DT + dt	0	81	72.3	47	78.3	34	65.4	n.s
	DT + dt	1+	31	27.7	13	21.7	18	34.6
	FT + ft	0	42	37.5	17	28.3	25	48.1	n.s
		1+	70	62.5	43	71.7	27	51.9
7^th-9^th	Plaque score	0	23	20.5	11	18.3	12	23.1	n.s
	Plaque score	1+	89	79.5	49	81.7	40	76.1
	Gingivitis	0	43	38.4	21	35.0	22	42.3	n.s
	Gingivitis	1+	69	61.6	39	65.0	30	57.7
	Area of tongue coating	0,1	68	60.7	35	58.3	33	63.5	n.s
	Area of tongue coating	2+	44	39.3	25	41.7	19	36.5
	Thickness of tongue coating	0,1	84	75.0	44	73.3	40	76.9	n.s
	Thickness of tongue coating	2+	28	25.0	16	26.7	12	23.1

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