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

Table 5

Mean difference and standard deviation of the mean difference for paired t-test to examine the impact of subject gender on dentists’ attitudes towards SDAs.

Subject age	Males versus Female
	Length of the SDA
	6 to 6	5 to 5	4 to 4	3 to 3
35 years of age	−0.002 (0.11)	0.008 (0.10)	0.02 (0.07)	0.01 (0.05)
50 years of age	−0.01 (0.13)	0.008 (0.11)	0.004 (0.15)	0.02 (0.08)
70 years of age	−0.006 (0.05)	−0.006 (0.06)	0.003 (0.08)	0.01 (0.05)

Significant difference at /3 = 0.017 (Bonferroni’s correction).
SDA: shortened dental arch.
6: first molar, 5: second premolar.
4: first premolar, 3: canine.