The Influence of Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus on Dental Caries and Salivary Flow

Table 3

Distribution of study participants with mean dmf(t), dmf(s), DMF(T), and DMF(S) according to unstimulated salivary flow.

Unstimulated salivary flow		dmft	dmfs	DMFT	DMFS
Less than 0.1 mL/min	Diabetic group ( = 56)	0.48	0.5	2.28	2.41
	Nondiabetic group ()	0.62	1.0	4.0	4.75
	value	0.737	0.413	0.012	0.003
0.1–0.5 mL/min	Diabetic group ()	0.66	0.66	1.96	2.16
	Nondiabetic group ()	0.78	1.16	2.14	2.62
	value	0.520	0.04	0.459	0.119