Table 4.
Association between age, gender, tooth type and incidence of pain in the normal saline treatment group at both 1-day and 1-week post-operative review.
| Variable | Incidence |
X2p | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes (%) | No (%) | Total (%) | ||
| Age (years) | ||||
| ⩾17–20 | 0 (0) | 1 (100) | 1 (100) | 0.16ŧ |
| 21–30 | 0 (0) | 19 (100) | 19 (100) | |
| 31–40 | 2 (25) | 6 (75) | 8 (100) | |
| 41–50 | 0 (0) | 2 (100) | 2 (100) | |
| 51–60 | 0 (0) | 5 (100) | 5 (100) | |
| Gender | ||||
| Male | 1 (6.25) | 15 (93.75) | 16 (100) | 0.71ŧ |
| Female | 1 (5.26) | 18 (94.74) | 19 (100) | |
| Tooth type | ||||
| Maxillary anteriors | 0 (0) | 12 (100) | 12 (100) | 0.32ŧ |
| Maxillary premolars | 1 (10) | 9 (90) | 10 (100) | |
| Maxillary molars | 1 (33.33) | 2 (66.67) | 3 (100) | |
| Mandibular anteriors | 0 (0) | 3 (100) | 3 (100) | |
| Mandibular premolars | 0 (0) | 2 (100) | 2 (100) | |
| Mandibular molars | 0 (0) | 5 (100) | 5 (100) | |
ŧ Fisher’s exact p.