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Table 1 Patient characteristics and details of their corresponding operator in the study

From: Evaluating the impact of caries prevention and management by caries risk assessment guidelines on clinical practice in a dental teaching hospital

Patient characteristics

Pre-intervention (N = 237)

Post-intervention (N = 147)

P-value

Gender

0.211

 Male

138 (58.2 %)

76 (51.7 %)

 

 Female

99 (41.8 %)

71 (48.3 %)

 

Age

0.002 * #

 Mean age in years

4.29 ± 0.84

4.55 ± 0.70

 

  < 2 years old

8 (3.4 %)

3 (2.0 %)

 

 3 years old

32 (13.5 %)

9 (6.1 %)

 

 4 years old

79 (33.3 %)

39 (26.5 %)

 

 5 years old

118 (49.8 %)

96 (65.3 %)

 

dmft score

0.270 #

 Mean

9.63 ± 5.90

8.94 ± 6.04

 

 0

32 (13.5 %)

30 (20.4 %)

 

 1–5

31 (13.1 %)

13 (8.8 %)

 

 6–10

65 (27.4 %)

39 (26.5 %)

 

 11–15

64 (27.0 %)

44 (29.9 %)

 

 16–20

45 (19.0 %)

21 (14.3 %)

 
  1. Chi-square test; # Independent Sample T-test; * statistically significant (P ≤ 0.05)