Table 5.

Results for the logistic regression related to % of DPBRN practitioner-investigators who would recommend restorative intervention for interproximal caries based on radiograph lesion depth only into the enamel - for low and high caries risk patient - by dentist's and practice's characteristics.

Explanatory variables	Low Caries Risk∞	High Caries Risk
Gender of dentist	*	p=.0202
Practice busyness	*	p=.0215
Region	*	*
Type of practice	p < .0001	p < .0001
Percent of patients who self-pay	*	*
Percent of patient contact time spent each day doing restorative procedures	*	*
Percent of patient contact time spent each day doing esthetic procedures	*	*
Whether or not caries risk is done as a routine part of treatment planning	*	*

^∞22 observations were deleted from the logistic regression analysis due to lack of convergence in estimation of model parameters

^*p >.05