Table 2 Distribution of the severity of tooth wear in each sextant
From: Tooth wear among five-year-old children in Jakarta, Indonesia
Sextant | BEWE Score No. (prevalence) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
0 (no erosion) | 1 (initial loss) | 2 (hard tissue loss < 50%) | 3 (hard tissue loss > 50%) | |
Upper anterior teeth | 648 (93.8%) | 11 (1.6%) | 32 (4.6%) | – |
Upper right posterior teeth | 680 (98.4%) | 7 (1.0%) | 4 (0.6%) | – |
Upper left posterior teeth | 686 (99.3%) | 1 (0.1%) | 4 (0.6%) | – |
Lower anterior teeth | 559 (80.9%) | 27 (3.9%) | 105 (15.2%) | – |
Lower right posterior teeth | 667 (99.4%) | 2 (0.3%) | 2 (0.3%) | – |
Lower left posterior teeth | 685 (99.1%) | 2 (0.3%) | 4 (0.6%) | – |