Table 1.
Self-perceived importance, self-perceived confidence, and necessity of orthodontic technologies
| Technology | Self-perceived importance Mean (SD) |
Self-perceived confidence Mean (SD) |
Training | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mandatory in curriculum n (%) |
Short course training n (%) |
|||
| Intraoral scanners | 4.37 (0.59) | 4.23 (0.75) | 98 (87.5%) | 14 (12.5%) |
| CBCT | 4.29 (0.61) | 3.77 (0.90) | 100 (89.29%) | 12 (10.71%) |
| Digital treatment planning software | 4.27 (0.63) | 3.64 (0.83) | 102 (91.07%) | 10 (8.93%) |
| Lab-produced aligners | 4.20 (0.64) | 3.64 (0.85) | 100 (89.29%) | 12 (10.71%) |
| Digital modeling software | 4.03 (0.82) | 3.29 (1.03) | 91 (81.25%) | 21 (18.75%) |
| 3D printing | 3.89 (0.84) | 3.41 (0.95) | 83 (74.11%) | 29 (25.89%) |
| In-office aligners | 3.88 (0.74) | 3.16 (1.00) | 94 (83.93%) | 18 (16.07%) |
| Teledentistry | 3.66 (0.82) | 3.13 (0.87) | 68 (60.71%) | 44 (39.29%) |
| Extraoral scanners | 3.49 (0.83) | 3.24 (1.02) | 73 (65.18%) | 39 (34.82%) |
| CAD/CAM wires | 3.36 (0.91) | 2.75 (1.06) | 66 (58.93%) | 46 (41.07%) |
| CAD/CAM brackets | 3.29 (0.94) | 2.70 (1.05) | 64 (57.14%) | 48 (42.86%) |