Table 4.

Relationship Between Primary Treatments and Practice Demographics^a

	Aligners Often		Extract Often		TADS Often		Jaw Surgery Often
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Practice type
Solo, private practice (n = 48)	18	37	10	21	5	10	5	10
Owner, nonsolo, private practice (n = 18)	4	22	2	11	1	6	1	6
Associate/employee private practice (n = 9)	4	44	5	56	0	0	1	11
Academic setting (n = 11)	3	21	6	55	5	45	3	27
	P = .6		P = .01		P = .01		P = .3
Location of primary practice location
Inner city of urban area (n = 15)	8	53	6	40	5	33	3	20
Urban (not inner city) (n = 31)	11	35	9	29	2	6	4	13
Suburban (n = 34)	9	26	10	29	3	9	5	15
Rural (n = 8)	1	12	1	13	0	0	0	0
	P = .4		P = .6		P = .7		P = .6
Network region
Western (n = 37)	16	43	7	19	5	14	5	14
Midwest (n = 9)	0	0	2	22	1	11	1	11
Southwest (n = 16)	7	44	6	38	3	191	2	12
South Central (n = 6)	1	17	2	33	0	0	2	33
South Atlantic (n = 9)	2	22	2	33	2	22	2	22
Northeast (n = 14)	4	29	6	43	0	0	1	7
	P = .12		P = .5		P = .5		P = .7

^aP values from chi-square or Fisher exact test.