Association of dietary habits and parental-reported sleep tooth grinding with tooth wear in children with mixed dentition

Table 3 Correlation of age, gender, sleep tooth grinding and dietary-habits with non-occlusal/non-incisal tooth wear in permanent and deciduous teeth. Spearman correlation analysis (Rho Correlation Coefficients and p-values)

	Non-Occlusal/Non-Incisal tooth wear
Variables	26		46		11		31		54		63		85		83
	Rho	p value	Rho	p value	Rho	p value	Rho	p value	Rho	p value	Rho	p value	Rho	p value	Rho	p value
Age	0.2	0.05	0.3	0.002	0.07	0.42	−0.05	0.63	0.4	0.001	0.4	0.0003	0.4	0.002	0.4	0.002
Gender	−0.01	0.90	−0.2	0.06	0.006	0.94	0.03	0.75	0.08	0.49	−0.05	0.67	−0.09	0.43	0.1	0.60
Sleep tooth grinding	0.1	0.23	0.2	0.035	−0.02	0.78	0.1	0.27	−0.06	0.48	−0.03	0.75	0.14	0.22	0.3	0.007
Fruits and vegetables	0.7	0.02	0.04	0.70	−0.005	0.95	0.06	0.55	0.005	0.97	−0.1	0.61	−0.02	0.86	−0.1	0.39
Breads and cereals	0.02	0.82	−0.05	0.65	−0.02	0.80	−0.005	0.95	−0.1	0.38	−0.2	0.16	−0.1	0.38	−0.1	0.29
Milk products	−0.1	0.59	−0.06	0.56	0.06	0.52	0.02	0.84	−0.3	0.32	−0.2	0.08	−0.3	0.01	−0.2	0.18
Fried products	−0.03	0.76	0.02	0.82	−0.1	0.45	−0.1	0.29	−0.1	0.32	−0.2	0.12	−0.1	0.42	−0.2	0.08
Sweet and chocolates	0.002	0.97	−0.1	0.41	−0.3	0.005	−0.1	0.26	0.2	0.17	0.2	0.195	0.1	0.28	0.05	0.71
Sodas	−0.04	0.70	−0.1	0.50	0.02	0.81	0.7	0.02	−0.2	0.19	−0.2	0.20	−0.1	0.31	−0.2	0.27
Alcohol	−0.1	0.58	−0.10	0.32	−0.03	0.72	0.02	0.82	−0.002	0.84	−0.06	0.63	−0.06	0.62	−0.1	0.35

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