Prevalence of Dental Caries in 5- and 6-Year-Old Myanmar Children

Table 4

Results of multilevel modeling for the prevalence of dental caries at the tooth level.

		Coefficient	95% CI	p value
Intercept		1.125	0.168–2.082	0.024
Age		−0.127	−0.307–0.054	0.157
Male			Reference
Female		0.077	−0.076–0.231	0.302
Maxillary	Molar		Reference
	Canine	0.897	0.589–1.206	<0.001
	Anterior	0.063	−0.141–0.268	0.522
Mandibular	Molar	−0.277	−0.473–−0.082	0.008
	Canine	1.295	0.913–1.676	<0.001
	Anterior	1.607	1.224–1.991	<0.001

The fitness index of AIC is 145.718 and of BIC is 195.096. Each tooth was nested in each subjects. To analyze this hierarchal structure, multilevel analysis is indispensable. The coefficients showed the same tendency shown in IRT analysis in Table 2. Most eminent difference of these results from IRT was the adjustment of confoundings like age and gender.