From: Relationship between the state of tongue hygiene and the number of residual teeth in convalescent-ward inpatients, cross- sectional study
tooth number
tongue
saliva
p value
0
N (%)
> 1
total
22
(57.9)
9
(16.1)
> 0.001
16
(42.1)
47
(83.9)
< 19
5
(38.5)
4
(13.8)
0.084
8
(61.5)
25
(86.2)
> 20
17
(68.0)
(18.5)
(32.0)
(81.5)