Oral Health Status of Syrian Children in the Refugee Center of Melilla, Spain

Table 3

Influence of ethnicity and gender in the oral health status of Syrian children in the CETI of Melilla ().

Sociodemographic variables			Oral health variables
			Healthy teeth	Decayed teeth	Global DMFT	Global IR	Healthy sextants	Bleeding sextants
Ethnicity (mean ± SD)	Caucasian		21.3 ± 3.9	2.3 ± 2.9	2.7 ± 3.6	1.8 ± 8.2	5.2 ± 1.6	0.0 ± 0.3
	Arab		20.0 ± 4.3	3.2 ± 3.3	3.5 ± 3.6	2.8 ± 13.3	5.1 ± 1.9	0.0 ± 0.3
Gender (mean ± SD)	All the sample	Male	20.5 ± 3.7	2.9 ± 3.0	3.1 ± 3.1	2.2 ± 12.6	5.0 ± 1.9	0.1 ± 0.4
		Female	20.4 ± 4.8	2.8 ± 3.5	3.3 ± 4.1	2.7 ± 10.3	5.4 ± 1.5	0.0 ± 0.0
	5–7 years old	Male	19.2 ± 3.6	2.5 ± 2.9	2.6 ± 3.0	0.0 ± 0.0	3.6 ± 2.7	0.0 ± 0.0
		Female	17.9 ± 5.0	4.4 ± 4.4	4.9 ± 5.1	1.5 ± 7.1	4.5 ± 2.3	0.0 ± 0.0
	8–10 years old	Male	20.4 ± 2.8	2.9 ± 2.3	3.2 ± 2.5	3.6 ± 17.2	5.8 ± 0.7	0.0 ± 0.5
		Female	20.1 ± 4.1	2.7 ± 3.1	3.2 ± 3.8	1.7 ± 6.8	5.9 ± 0.4	0.0 ± 0.0
	11–13 years old	Male	22.1 ± 4.6	3.3 ± 3.9	3.7 ± 4.1	2.8 ± 11.9	5.4 ± 1.2	0.2 ± 0.5
		Female	24.5 ± 2.5	0.9 ± 1.6	1.3 ± 1.9	6.3 ± 17.1	5.7 ± 0.7	0.0 ± 0.0

Significant difference with between both groups after Student’s t-test.