Table 4.
Clinical and radiographic success according to carious lesion parameters.
| Variables | n | Clinical and radiographic results | p ∗ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Success | Failure | |||||
| n | % | n | % | |||
| Occurrence | ||||||
| Present | 45 | 26 | 57.8 | 19 | 42.2 | 0.005 |
| Absent | 109 | 87 | 79.8 | 22 | 20.2 | |
| Type | ||||||
| Primary | 8 | 5 | 62.5 | 3 | 37.5 | 1.000 |
| Secondary | 37 | 21 | 56.8 | 16 | 43.2 | |
| Involvement | ||||||
| Enamel | 7 | 4 | 57.1 | 3 | 42.9 | 0.880 |
| Dentin | 34 | 19 | 55.9 | 15 | 44.1 | |
| Cementum | 4 | 3 | 75.0 | 1 | 25.0 | |
| Cavitation | ||||||
| Present | 27 | 15 | 55.6 | 12 | 44.4 | 0.712 |
| Absent | 18 | 11 | 61.1 | 7 | 38.9 | |
∗Pearson's chi-square test and Fisher's exact test.