Table 1.
Distribution of age, gender, and tooth group with endodontic treatment and type of procedural error.
| Type of error | p value (χ 2) | |||||||
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| Normal | Overfill | Underfill | Instrument separation | Apical transportation | ||||
| Gender | Male | Count (%) | 434 (64.4%) | 165 (24.5%) | 69 (10.2%) | 4 (0.6%) | 2 (0.3%) | 0.19 (6.12)α |
| Female | Count | 726 (68.6%) | 230 (21.7%) | 86 (8.1%) | 12 (1.1%) | 5 (0.5%) | ||
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| Age group | <10 | Count | 19 (67.9%) | 3 (10.7%) | 5 (17.9%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (3.6%) | 0.000139 (57.5) |
| 10–20 | Count | 126 (58.1%) | 79 (36.4%) | 10 (4.6%) | 1 (0.5%) | 1 (0.5%) | ||
| 20–30 | Count | 353 (69.9%) | 108 (21.4%) | 33 (6.5%) | 8 (1.6%) | 3 (0.6%) | ||
| 30–40 | Count | 318 (68.2%) | 94 (20.2%) | 50 (10.7%) | 3 (0.6%) | 1 (0.2%) | ||
| 40–50 | Count | 204 (67.5%) | 64 (21.2%) | 32 (10.6%) | 2 (0.7%) | 0 (0.0%) | ||
| 50–60 | Count | 89 (62.7%) | 33 (23.2%) | 19 (13.4%) | 1 (0.7%) | 0 (0.0%) | ||
| >60 | Count | 54 (71.1%) | 14 (18.4%) | 6 (7.9%) | 1 (1.3%) | 1 (1.3%) | ||
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| Tooth group | Incisors | Count | 256 (78.0%) | 57 (17.4%) | 15 (4.6%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0.000 (125.88) |
| Canines | Count | 123 (86.6%) | 11 (7.7%) | 7 (4.9%) | 1 (0.7%) | 0 (0.0%) | ||
| Premolars | Count | 375 (74.6%) | 81 (16.1%) | 44 (8.7%) | 1 (0.2%) | 2 (0.4%) | ||
| Molars | Count | 419 (54.1%) | 248 (32.0%) | 89 (11.5%) | 14 (1.8%) | 5 (0.6%) | ||
αSignificance calculated at 95% Confidence Interval (CI).