Table 4.
Distribution of reasons for restorations replacement on associated factors.
| N = 318 | Amalgam |
Composite |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n = 261 (82%) |
n = 57 (18%) |
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| AOR |
PI |
OR |
AOR |
PI |
OR |
|
| greater than10 | poor | bruxism | greater than10 | poor | bruxism | |
| Secondary caries | 29 | 30 | – | 5 | 9 | – |
| Fracture (tooth/restoration) | 28 | 4 | 5 | 1 | – | 2 |
| Ditching/marginal discoloration | 25 | 11 | – | 7 | 6 | – |
| Proximal overhang/open contact | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | – | – |
| Loss of anatomy | 2 | – | 2 | 1 | – | 1 |
| Pain/sensitivity | 10 | 4 | – | – | 1 | – |
| Aesthetics | 49 | 18 | – | 3 | 5 | – |
| Total | 147 | 74 | 10 | 18 | 21 | 3 |
| 56% | 28% | 4% | 32% | 37% | 5% | |