Table 3.
The mean thickness of the replicas at all points in the mesial, distal, buccal, and lingual sections
| Point | Impression technique |
Mean | Standard deviation |
Standard error |
Minimum | Maximum | P-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buccal | Digital | 71.95 | 3.23 | 1.02 | 64.78 | 74.96 | 0.0001 |
| Conventional | 148.12 | 25.0 | 4.74 | 129.13 | 180.73 | ||
| Lingual | Digital | 74.04 | 7.2 | 2.28 | 64.62 | 87.25 | 0.0001 |
| Conventional | 146.48 | 14.55 | 4.6 | 122.61 | 166.07 | ||
| Mesial | Digital | 64.73 | 8.86 | 2.8 | 52.61 | 84.21 | 0.0001 |
| Conventional | 162.97 | 19.6 | 6.19 | 125.62 | 183.51 | ||
| Distal | Digital | 60.75 | 5.87 | 1.86 | 55.75 | 70.22 | 0.0001 |
| Conventional | 153.52 | 16.64 | 5.26 | 125.95 | 174.31 |