Table 4.
Comparison of the subjects' responses toward desired esthetic treatments with respect to their gender, academic year, GPA, and monthly household income (part 2).
| Questions regarding treatment | Do you feel you have enough knowledge of the available esthetic treatment options? | Do you prefer to have tooth-colored restorations on your posterior teeth knowing that amalgam and gold restorations have higher survival rates? (Yes) | Your desired esthetic dental treatment (multiple responses) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teeth whitening | Orthodontic treatment | Tooth-colored restorations | Ceramic veneers | Crowns | Partial dentures or implants | I Do not need any treatment | |||
| Response | |||||||||
| Yes | 284 (73.8) | 256 (66.5) | 251 (65.2) | 159 (41.3) | 77 (20) | 36 (9.4) | 22 (5.7) | 11 (2.9) | 66 (17.1) |
| No | 101 (26.2) | 129 (33.5) | 134 (34.8) | 226 (58.7) | 308 (80) | 349 (90.6) | 363 (94.3) | 374 (97.1) | 319 (82.9) |
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| Gender-Number (%) (yes) | |||||||||
| Male | 133 (71.9) | 117 (63.2) | 114 (61.6) | 94 (50.8) | 44 (23.8) | 26 (14.1) | 15 (8.1) | 8 (4.3) | 31 (16.8) |
| Female | 151 (75.5) | 139 (69.5) | 137 (68.5) | 65 (32.5) | 33 (16.5) | 10 (5.0) | 7 (3.5) | 3 (1.5) | 35 (17.5) |
| p-value | 0.421 | 0.194 | 0.157 | <0.0001∗ | 0.074 | 0.002∗ | 0.052 | 0.097 | 0.847 |
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| Academic year-Number (%) (yes) | |||||||||
| 1st | 47 (58.8) | 37 (46.3) | 52 (65.0) | 26 (32.5) | 12 (15.0) | 10 (12.5) | 4 (5.0) | 4 (5.0) | 12 (15.0) |
| 2nd | 48 (60.0) | 50 (62.5) | 54 (67.5) | 31 (38.8) | 17 (21.3) | 8 (10.0) | 7 (8.8) | 5 (6.3) | 11 (13.8) |
| 3rd | 68 (85.0) | 64 (80.0) | 51 (63.8) | 33 (41.3) | 17 (21.3) | 5 (6.3) | 2 (2.5) | 1 (1.3) | 13 (16.3) |
| 4th | 53 (75.7) | 48 (68.6) | 51 (72.9) | 40 (57.1) | 19 (27.1) | 7 (10.0) | 6 (8.6) | 1 (1.4) | 9 (12.9) |
| 5th | 68 (90.7) | 57 (76.0) | 43 (57.3) | 29 (38.7) | 12 (16.0) | 6 (8.0) | 3 (4.0) | 0 | 21 (28.0) |
| p-value | <0.0001∗ | <0.0001∗ | 0.391 | 0.037∗ | 0.356 | 0.721 | — | — | 0.089 |
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| GPA-Number (%) | |||||||||
| 4.5–5 | 196 (72.6) | 176 (65.2) | 181 (67.0) | 103 (38.1) | 45 (16.7) | 26 (9.6) | 14 (5.2) | 9 (3.3) | 47 (17.4) |
| 3.75–4.49 | 83 (76.9) | 74 (68.5) | 67 (62.0) | 52 (48.1) | 28 (25.9) | 9 (8.3) | 7 (6.5) | 2 (1.9) | 18 (16.7) |
| <3.75 | 5 (71.4) | 6 (85.7) | 3 (42.9) | 4 (57.1) | 4 (57.1) | 1 (14.3) | 1 (14.3) | 0 | 1 (14.3) |
| p-value | 0.690 | 0.457 | 0.299 | 0.141 | 0.006∗ | 0.836 | 0.545 | — | 0.965 |
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| Monthly household income-number (%) | |||||||||
| <10,000 | 15 (65.2) | 14 (60.9) | 14 (60.9) | 10 (43.5) | 9 (39.1) | 2 (8.7) | 1 (4.3) | 1 (4.3) | 3 (13.0) |
| 10,000–15000 | 22 (57.9) | 27 (71.1) | 19 (50.0) | 21 (55.3) | 12 (31.6) | 3 (7.9) | 5 (13.2) | 2 (5.3) | 6 (15.8) |
| 15,000–20,000 | 57 (75.0) | 51 (67.1) | 52 (68.4) | 28 (36.8) | 13 (17.1) | 8 (10.5) | 3 (3.9) | 1 (1.3) | 13 (17.1) |
| >20,000 | 190 (76.6) | 164 (66.1) | 166 (66.9) | 100 (40.3) | 43 (17.3) | 23 (9.3) | 13 (5.2) | 7 (2.8) | 44 (17.7) |
| p-value | 0.075 | 0.871 | 0.192 | 0.281 | 0.019∗ | 0.972 | — | — | 0.944 |
∗Statistically significant; (yes) if the question answer was yes.