. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Oral Facial Pain Headache. 2017 Spring;31(2):152–158. doi: 10.11607/ofph.1730

Table 5.

Factors affecting dentist decision to perform occlusal adjustment for TMD-related pain (n=81)

Variable	OR	95% CI		p value

		Lower	Upper
Gender (reference male)	2.45	0.560	10.691	.234
Years since graduation from dental school^*	1.00	0.950	1.048	.939
Dentist confidence in curing TMD-related acute pain ^*
Confident	1
Neither agree nor disagree	0.76	0.239	2.437	.648
Not confident	5.60	1.260	24.861	.024
Proportion of patients with severe TMD-related pain ^*	0.95	0.909	0.999	.047
Number of TMD pain patients treated per month ^*	1.05	0.993	1.100	.092

OR, odds ratio

CI, confidence interval

Overall predictive accuracy is 66.7% in the model

Continuous variable