Table 3.

Logistic regression demonstrating association between surgical technique and incidence of neurosensory deficit after adjusting for demographic and operative factors

Variables	OR [95% CI]	p-Value	aOR [95% CI]	p-Value
Age	0.92 [0.78, 1.07]	0.29	0.74 [0.54, 1.02]	0.07
Gender
Female	1 [reference]		1 [reference]
Male	0.56 [0.09, 3.62]	0.55	0.01 [0.00, 8.42]	0.19
Weight (in Kg)	1.06 [1.00, 1.12]	0.04*	1.30 [1.03, 1.62]	0.03*
Type of impaction
Mesioangular	1 [reference]		1 [reference]
Horizontal	1.79 [0.27, 11.73]	0.54	2.08 [0.05, 79.09]	0.69
Surgical difficulty (Pederson’s index)	1.77 [0.63, 4.95]	0.28	2.20 [0.16, 29.92]	0.55
Duration of Operation (in minutes)	1.03 [0.99, 1.07]	0.16	1.06 [0.97, 1.15]	0.18
Morphology of root
Conical shaped	1 [reference]
Club shaped	0.42 [0.04, 4.82]	0.48
Divergent roots	0.28 [0.02, 5.27]	0.39

OR Odds ratio, aOR adjusted odds ratio; adjusted for age, sex, weight, type of impaction, surgical difficulty (1–7), and duration of operation, 95% CI 95% confidence interval

*p-Value < 0.05