Dental caries in primary and permanent molars in 7-8-year-old schoolchildren evaluated with Caries Assessment Spectrum and Treatment (CAST) index

Table 3 The correlations of CAST codes in evaluated molar teeth (Spearman’s correlation coefficient)

	r	p	p*
Left-right correlations
16/26	0.513	<0.001	<0.001
46/36	0.638	<0.001	<0.001
55/65	0.501	<0.001	<0.001
85/75	0.594	<0.001	<0.001
54/64	0.611	<0.001	<0.001
84/74	0.495	<0.001	<0.001
Neighbouring teeth correlations
16/55	0.132	0.025	NS
26/65	0.093	0.114	NS
36/75	0.236	<0.001	<0.001
46/85	0.248	<0.001	<0.001
55/54	0.472	<0.001	<0.001
65/64	0.627	<0.001	<0.001
75/74	0.513	<0.001	<0.001
85/84	0.483	<0.001	<0.001
Upper-lower jaw correlations
16/46	0.401	<0.001	<0.001
26/36	0.412	<0.001	<0.001
55/85	0.490	<0.001	<0.001
54/84	0.330	<0.001	<0.001
65/75	0.456	<0.001	<0.001
64/74	0.426	<0.001	<0.001

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