Author (year)

Origin

No. of teeth

One root

Two roots

Three roots

Pineda & Kuttler (1972) [12]

Mexicans

259

43.0

54.6

2.4

Carns & Skidmore (1973) [10]

White Americans

100

22.0

72.0

6.0

Vertucci & Gegayff (1979) [6]

White Americans

400

39.5

56.5

4.0

Walker (1987) [9]

Chinese

100

60.0

40.0

0

Pecora et al. (1992) [4]

Brazilians

240

55.8

41.7

2.5

Loh (1998) [8]

Singaporeans

957

49.4

50.6

0

Chaparro et al. (1999) [14]

Spanish

150

40.0

56.7

3.3

Lipski et al. (2003) [5]

Polish

142

15.5

75.3

9.2

Awawdeh et al. (2008) [7]

Jordanians

600

30.8

68.4

0.8

Atieh (2008) [29]

Saudis

246

17.9

80.9

1.2

Özcan et al. (2012) [36]

Turkish

653

45.2

53.7

1.1

Rwenyonyi et al. (2011) [13]

Ugandans

202

26.7

73.3

0

Elkady et al. (2013) [35]

Saudis subpopulation

120

28.3

71.7

0

The present study

Kosovar

221

21.72

70.14

8.14