Research on Nutrition, Dental Caries Status Using Novel Methods, and Related Factors to Preschool Children in Rural Areas of Vietnam

Table 4

Dental caries of children in the study.

Dental caries by age of children in the study
	Dental caries		Normal
Age	n	%	n	%
2	20	40.0	30	60.0
3	148	71.2	60	28.8
4	158	77.5	46	22.5
5	166	72.8	62	27.2
Total	492	71.3	198	28.7
The dental caries status of malnutrition children in the study
	Dental caries		Normal
Nutritional status	n	%	n	%
Stunting	80	63.5	46	36.5	<0.05
Underweight	38	61.3	24	38.7	>0.05
Wasted	14	58.3	10	41.7	>0.05
Overweight/obesity	28	58.3	20	41.7	>0.05

Natural numbers (n) indicate the number of children in the groups; the decimals indicate the percentages of the groups.