The Impact of Subject Age, Gender, and Arch Length on Attitudes of Syrian Dentists towards Shortened Dental Arches

Table 2

Dentists’ mean utility values of the shortened dental arch scenarios.

Subject age	Gender	Length of the SDA
		6 to 6	5 to 5	4 to 4	3 to 3
		Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)
35 years of age	M	0.65 (0.27)	0.49 (0.29)	0.40 (0.31)	0.28 (0.26)
	F	0.65 (0.28)	0.49 (0.31)	0.38 (0.32)	0.26 (0.36)
50 years of age	M	0.69 (0.28)	0.54 (0.26)	0.44 (0.27)	0.32 (0.32)
	F	0.71 (0.27)	0.53 (0.28)	0.43 (0.29)	0.30 (0.32)
70 years of age	M	0.73 (0.36)	0.61 (0.30)	0.51 (0.26)	0.38 (0.28)
	F	0.73 (0.35)	0.61 (0.30)	0.51 (0.27)	0.37 (0.29)

Utility values are within the range 0-1, where 0.0 = total lack of oral health and 1.0 = total oral health.
M: male.
F: female.
SDA: shortened dental arch.
SD: standard deviation.
6: first molar; 5: second premolar.
4: first premolar; 3: canine.