Total taste score, sour and salty sum scores associated with different oral health variables in 174 hospitalized elderly.

1The number of dentate patients were 142.2Plaque score is defined as plaque on teeth and/or dentures, (graded from 1–4).3Mucosal score is defined as mucosal and/or gingival inflammation, (graded from1–4).4Mucosal-Plaque Score (MPS) is the sum of Plaque score and Mucosal score with sum score from 2 to 8.Stimulated whole saliva was collected in 158 patients.*p≤0.05.In those cases where significance was reached, the p-values adjusted for gender are shown in parentheses below the unadjusted p-values.Sweet and bitter sum scores were not significantly associated with any of these variables, and are therefore not shown in the table.