Research Article
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 (
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| 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 |
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Significant difference with between both groups after Student’s t-test. |