Table 4.
Contributions of the 17 inputs for target prediction
| Input categories | Contribution | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Pain | Anxiety | Quality of life | |
| Number of teeth with lingual attachments | 30.495 (3.164, 64.621) | 13.557 (3.018, 33.124) | 414.976 (190.285, 684.003) |
| Number of lingual buttons | 6.139 (1.226, 12.541) | 263.655 (145.051, 419.175) | 71.548 (28.348, 131.841) |
| Number of upper incisors with attachments | 0.462 (0.068, 4.223) | 8.710 (3.520, 15.665) | 127.323 (53.239, 223.390) |
| Crowding (mm) | 0.173 (0.004, 1.253) | 40.256 (20.196, 66.327) | 44.515 (11.818, 84.555) |
| Amount of interproximal reduction (mm) | 0.670 (0.113, 2.692) | 39.468 (16.395, 64.707) | 0.942 (0.080, 4.211) |
| Treatment stage | 1.451 (0.216, 5.189) | 9.740 (5.509, 16.898) | 28.250 (13.301, 50.561) |
| With/without precision cut | 3.495 (0.615, 9.066) | 32.480 (16.052, 51.128) | 1.266 (0.084, 5.304) |
| Age (yr) | 9.140 (1.622, 19.141) | 0.904 (0.078, 3.351) | 25.386 (10.694, 42.722) |
| With/without interproximal reduction | 1.680 (0.300, 7.595) | 2.0378 (0.161, 5.573) | 27.993 (9.141, 69.337) |
| Number of teeth with optimized attachments |
17.884 (5.501, 42.235) | 9.216 (5.308, 17.528) | 4.456 (0.872, 12.977) |
| With/without elastics | 0.937 (0.160, 3.142) | 14.724 (7.662, 23.509) | 13.357 (5.600, 27.314) |
| Number of extractions | 23.077 (7.160, 48.523) | 2.976 (0.518, 8.308) | 0.827 (0.084, 4.143) |
| With/without extraction | 15.276 (5.932, 38.595) | 0.204 (0.020, 1.557) | 3.132 (0.441, 8.072) |
| Number of teeth with attachments | 6.380 (1.382, 16.947) | 0.544 (0.035, 2.550) | 10.554 (3.485, 24.553) |
| With/without molar distalization | 0.962 (0.355, 3.817) | 0.925 (0.158, 3.657) | 7.119 (1.743, 15.734) |
| Number of elastics | 1.334 (0.198, 5.679) | 0.224 (0.039, 1.006) | 6.383 (1.064, 20.720) |
| Wearing aligners and bonding attachments simultaneously or separately |
0.594 (0.063, 2.863) | 2.012 (0.418, 5.371) | 0.996 (0.054, 4.459) |
Data are presented as the median (95% confidence interval).