Screening for Celiac Disease in Children with Dental Enamel Defects

Table 3

Grading of dental enamel pathology in patients according to celiac positivity and effect of a GFD for 1 year.

	Celiac + DED at	Celiac + DED After	Nonceliac + DED at	Nonceliac + DED	GIa versus GIIa	GIb versus GIIb
	start of study	1 year on GFD	start of study	after 1 year
	(25)	(25)	(115)	(115)
	(GIa)	(GIb)	(GIIa)	(GIIb)
Normal	0	6 (24%)	0	4 (3.48%)		𝑋^2=13.04
						𝑃=0.0003
Grade 1	7 (28%)	7 (28%)	80 (69.57%)	78(67.38%)	𝑋^2=15.08	𝑋^2=6.81
					𝑃=0.0001	𝑃=0.0091
	𝑋^2=0.80 and 𝑃=0.3705		𝑋^2=.08 and 𝑃=0.7761
Grade 2	10 (40%)	6 (24%)	22 (19.13%)	21 (18.26%)	𝑋^2=5.07	𝑋^2=0.43
					𝑃=0.0243	𝑃=0.5098
	𝑋^2=1.47 and 𝑃=0.2253		𝑋^2=0.03 and 𝑃=0.8657
Grade 3	6 (24%)	4(16%)	11 (9.57%)	10 (8.7%)	𝑋^2=4.01	𝑋^2=0.27
					𝑃=0.0452	𝑃=0.6059
	𝑋^2=1.22 and 𝑃=0.2695		𝑋^2=0.05 and 𝑃=0.8189
Grade 4	2 (8%)	2 (8%)	2 (1.74%)	2 (1.74%)	𝑋^2=2.90	𝑋^2=.44
					𝑃=0.0886	𝑃=0.5066
	𝑋^2=2.08 and 𝑃=0.1489		𝑋^2=0.00 and 𝑃=1.0000