Application of a Cone-Beam Computed Tomography-Based Index for Evaluating Surgical Sites Prior to Sinus Lift Procedures—A Pilot Study

Table 9

Pairwise comparison of SDS corresponding to the difficulty level assigned by each evaluator.

	Difficulty level (I)	Difficulty level (J)	Mean difference (I-J)	Std. error	value	95% confidence interval
						Lower bound	Upper bound
Evaluator 1	1	2	-1.69	0.21	<0.001	-2.21	-1.18
		3	-2.94	0.30	<0.001	-3.69	-2.19
	2	3	-1.25	0.30	0.001	-2.00	-0.50
Evaluator 2	1	2	-1.69	0.21	<0.001	-2.21	-1.18
		3	-2.94	0.30	<0.001	-3.69	-2.19
	2	3	-1.25	0.30	0.001	-2.00	-0.50
Evaluator 3	1	2	-1.84	0.24	<0.001	-2.43	-1.24
		3	-2.69	0.40	<0.001	-3.68	-1.70
	2	3	-0.86	0.40	0.10 (NS)	-1.84	0.13
Evaluator 4	1	2	-1.69	0.21	<0.001	-2.21	-1.18
		3	-2.94	0.30	<0.001	-3.69	-2.19
	2	3	-1.25	0.30	0.001	-2.00	-0.50
Evaluator 5	1	2	-1.86	0.26	<0.001	-2.51	-1.21
		3	-2.29	0.35	<0.001	-3.15	-1.44
	2	3	-0.43	0.35	0.44 (NS)	-1.30	0.43

Tukey’s post hoc test. , statistically significant; , nonsignificant (NS).