Associations between oral health-related impacts and rate of weight gain after extraction of pulpally involved teeth in underweight preschool Filipino children

Table 5 The association between changes in oral health-related impacts between before and after treatment and weight gain after treatment

		WAZ-difference^• β-coefficient	95% CI	p-value*
SOHO-5-score (continuous)ⁱ		0.01	(−0.01, 0.04)	0.23
SOHO-5-score
	No difference ⁱⁱ	0.21	(−0.06, 0.48)	0.13
	Improvement ⁱⁱ	0.30	(0.10, 0.50)	0.003
Eating impact
	No difference ⁱⁱ	0.04	(−0.23, 0.32)	0.75
	Improvement ⁱⁱ	0.11	(−0.14, 0.37)	0.39
Sleeping impact
	No difference ⁱⁱ	0.36	(0.12, 0.61)	0.004
	Improvement ⁱⁱ	0.31	(0.07, 0.55)	0.01
Dental pain
	No difference ⁱⁱ	0.24	(−0.07, 0.55)	0.13
	Improvement ⁱⁱ	0.19	(−0.14, 0.52)	0.25

*Simple linear regression.
ⁱDifference in SOHO-5 score between before and after treatment.
ⁱⁱ‘improvement’ and ‘no difference’ regressed against ‘deterioration’ (reference).
^•Difference in weight-for-age (Z-score) between before and after treatment.

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