Salivary Cortisol as a Biomarker to Explore the Role of Maternal Stress in Early Childhood Caries

Table 1

Caries distribution of the study population.

	Group	Mean	Std. deviation	𝑡	Sig
DMFT (mothers)	Control	12.6154	4.20549	−3.16	.002*
	ECC	15.7105	3.58607
dft	Control	NA	NA	NA	NA
	ECC	5.8421	3.69460

NA: Not applicable as the dft of the children in the control group was 0.
*Difference significant at 𝑃<0.01, measured using the unpaired 𝑡 test.