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Table 5 Comparison of oral healthcare costs for refugees with and without toothache (in EUR, using Student’s t-test with case exclusion)

From: Assessment of oral health and cost of care for a group of refugees in Germany: a cross-sectional study

Treatment procedures

Toothache

Mean (SD) (in EUR)

Average difference

p-value

Cost for conservative treatment

Minimum

Yes (n = 48)

180.2 (106.3)

46.9

0.03

Minimum

No (n = 45)

133.3 (101.2)

Maximum

Yes (n = 48)

242.0 (155.6)

74.6

0.02

Maximum

No (n = 45)

167.3 (142.3)

Cost for prosthetic treatment

Yes (n = 26)

572.2 (380.5)

−38.6

0.75

No (n = 16)

610.8 (427.1)

Overall oral healthcare costs

Minimum

Yes (n = 49)

480.1 (440.8)

102.5

0.27

Minimum

No (n = 45)

377.6 (450.2)

Maximum

Yes (n = 49)

540.7 (453.6)

129.0

0.18

Maximum

No (n = 45)

411.7 (469.9)

  1. SD standard deviation