Table 3

Effect of height, weight and birth weight on the eruption of teeth

Model		Unstandardised coefficients		Standardised coefficients	t	Sig.
Model		B	SE	Beta ‡	t	Sig.
1	(Constant)	0.926	0.732		1.265	0.206
	Height percentile†	0.000	0.005	−0.003	−0.058	0.954
	Weight percentile†	0.017	0.004	0.236	4.469	0.000*
	Birth weight (kg)	0.005	0.238	0.001	0.021	0.983

↵Dependent variable: total number of primary teeth.
*Suggests significant positive (P<0.05) indicating that heavier children of the same age will have more erupted teeth than their lighter counterparts.
†Height and weight are calculated as the percentile for age using the WHO criteria.
‡Positive beta indicates positive association with the variable.