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Table 5 Final logistic regression model for the occurrence of new arrested caries lesions in SS patients over a 24-month period

From: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial of fluoride varnish in preventing dental caries of Sjögren’s syndrome patients

  

Adjusted

  

Odds ratio

95 % confidence interval

Factors

P-value

 

Lower

Upper

Intervention (Ref. = placebo group)

0.054

0.315

0.097

1.022

Buffering capacity of unstimulated whole saliva at baseline (Ref. = medium and low)

0.017

5.018

1.339

18.804

Mean counts of Candida in oral rinse samples over 24 months

0.015

1.002

1.000

1.003