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Table 2 Prevalence, intensity and score of oral impacts in Thai school children

From: The prevalence and severity of oral impacts on daily performances in Thai primary school children

  

Performances

Oral impacts on daily performances

Overall impacts

Eating

Speaking

Cleaning teeth

Relaxing

Emotion

Smiling

Study

Contact

Prevalence (%)

89.8

72.9

9.9

48.5

14.7

58.1

40.1

15.4

12.2

Impact intensity (% of children with impacts)

   - Very little

15.9

27.9

37.4

33.2

37.4

43.7

25.5

57.8

49.2

   - Little

31.1

39.0

33.3

38.8

44.2

37.2

28.2

31.2

38.5

   - Moderate

31.7

21.8

19.2

20.8

14.3

13.9

27.4

9.7

10.7

   - Severe

18.7

10.8

9.1

6.6

3.4

4.7

15.7

1.3

1.6

   - Very severe

2.6

5.5

1.0

0.6

0.7

0.5

3.2

0.0

0.0

Impact score

   - Range

0–59.7

0–9

0–9

0–9

0–9

0–9

0–9

0–6

0–6

   - Mean (sd)

8.85 (7.4)

1.87 (1.8)

0.23 (0.9)

1.13 (1.6)

0.30 (0.7)

1.17 (1.4)

1.21 (2.0)

0.25 (0.7)

0.21 (0.7)

   - Percentiles (25,50,75)

2.8,7.6,12.5

0,2,2

0,0,2

0,0,0

0,0,0

0,1,2

0,0,2

0,0,0

0,0,0