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Table 5 The caries prevalence, total numbers and percentage of school students with or without caries lesions according to the DMFS and ICDAS II scoring system

From: Comparative evaluation of caries prevalence among group of Egyptian adolescents using DMFS and ICDASII methods: a cross-sectional study

 

Students with caries lesion

Students without caries

Scoring system

DMFS

ICDAS II

DMFS

ICDAS II

Numbers of students

1920

2161

840

599

% of students

69.56%

78.29%

30.44%

21.71%

p-value

 < 0.001*

  1. *; significant (p < 0.005)