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Table 2 Oral health information. The UNRWA oral health survey by field (2011)

From: Oral health status and caries trend among 12-year old Palestine refugee students: results from the UNRWA’s oral health surveys 2011 and 2016

 

West Bank

Jordan

Gaza Strip

Lebanon

Syria

p-value

N (%)a

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

Present Teeth

< 0.01°

 Median (min;max)

28 (15–28)

28 (20–28)

28 (20–28)

28 (20–28)

28 (18–28)

 

DS

< 0.01#

 0

92 (16.8)

200 (34.7)

207 (35.5)

212 (41.0)

178 (32.0)

 

  > 0

457 (83.2)

376 (65.3)

376 (64.5)

305 (59.0)

378 (68.0)

 

MS

< 0.01#

 0

518 (94.4)

555 (96.4)

574 (98.5)

515 (99.6)

546 (98.2)

 

  > 0

31 (5.6)

21 (3.6)

9 (1.5)

2 (0.4)

10 (1.8)

 

FS

< 0.01#

 0

447 (81.4)

414 (71.9)

488 (83.7)

394 (76.2)

446 (80.2)

 

  > 0

102 (18.6)

162 (28.1)

95 (16.3)

123 (23.8)

110 (19.8)

 

DMFS

< 0.01#

 0

82 (14.9)

163 (28.3)

182 (31.2)

163 (31.5)

157 (28.2)

 

  > 0

467 (85.1)

413 (71.7)

401 (68.8)

354 (68.5)

399 (71.8)

 

SEALANTS

< 0.01#

 0

547 (99.6)

541 (93.9)

578 (99.1)

407 (78.7)

530 (95.3)

 

  > 0

2 (0.4)

35 (6.1)

5 (0.9)

110 (21.3)

26 (4.7)

 
  1. a Otherwise specified; °Kruskal-Wallis non parametric test; # Pearson’s Chi-square test