Esthetic Concerns and Acceptability of Treatment Modalities in Primary Teeth: A Comparison between Children and Their Parents

Table 3

Point at which the population would visit the dentist.

	Child	Mother	Father
Complete destruction of crown	48 (44.9%)	38 (35.5%)	38 (35.5%)
Deep caries with partial destruction of crown	31 (29.0%)	22 (20.6%)	34 (31.8%)
Initial cavitation of tooth	21 (19.6%)	40 (37.4%)	22 (20.6%)
No caries on the tooth	6 (5.6%)	7 (6.5%)	12 (11.2%)
Invalid/no response	1 (0.9%)	0 (0%)	1 (0%)

Based on the Kruskal-Wallis test with Mann-Whitney test for post hoc comparisons.
Difference in superscript indicates significant differences between children and their parents.
Significance calculated at after applying Bonferroni correction for multiple nonparametric comparisons.