Table 2 Study members' oral health-related QOL at age 32 by mothers' self-rated oral health status at the age-5 assessment (an impact is measured by a "fairly often" or "very often" response to OHIP-14 scale items)

Excellent or

fairly good

(N = 271)

Average

(N = 318)

Fairly poor,

very poor or

edentulous

(N = 238)

Total

(827)

54 (19.9)^a

68 (21.4)

75 (31.5)

197 (23.8)

6.6 (6.9)^bc

8.4 (8.0)^b

9.3 (8.9)^c

8.1 (8.0)

0.4 (1.0)^d

0.5 (1.2)^e

0.8 (1.8)^de

0.5 (1.4)