From: The impact of anticipatory guidance on early childhood caries: a quasi-experimental study
Intervention (n = 233) | Control (n = 245) | p-valuea | Caries prevented fraction (%) | |||||
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Baseline | Follow-up | Net increment | Baseline | Follow-up | Net increment | |||
Mean ± SD | Mean ± SD | |||||||
2–3-year-old | ||||||||
dft | 0.94 (1.6) | 1.18 (1.8) | 0.24(0.8) | 1.15 (1.6) | 1.90 (1.9) | 0.75 (1.2) | < 0.001 | 68.0 |
dt | 0.76 (1.2) | 0.34 (0.8) | −0.42 (0.9) | 0.91 (1.4) | 0.87 (1.4) | 0.04 (1.2) | < 0.001 | |
ft | 0.18 (0.6) | 0.84 (1.3) | 0.66 (1.1) | 0.24(0.8) | 1.04 (1.2) | 0.79 (1.3) | 0.021 | |
4–6-year-old | ||||||||
dft | 2.45 (2.1) | 2.60 (3.0) | 0.20 (0.7) | 2.08 (2.3) | 2.63 (2.4) | 0.55 (0.9) | < 0.001 | 63.6 |
dt | 2.07 (2.6) | 0.97 (1.7) | −1.17 (1.8) | 1.57 (1.8) | 1.29 (1.5) | − 0.28 (1.3) | < 0.001 | |
ft | 0.33 (0.9) | 1.70 (2.0) | 1.37 (1.7) | 0.51 (1.1) | 1.34 (1.5) | 0.83 (1.2) | < 0.001 |