Appropriateness in Dentistry: A Survey Discovers Improper Procedures in Oral Medicine and Surgery

Table 5

Results of a logistic regression models.

	Estimate	Std. error	value	value
Item 1. Prescription of tooth extraction in pregnancy
Intercept	−2.79	0.56	−4.96	7.04E−07
Gender (male)	0.6	0.35	1.72	0.08
Years of birth (>1972)	0.54	0.38	1.43	0.15
Dentistry degree	1.51	0.56	2.69	0.01
Item 6. Inflammatory state of gums
Intercept	0.23	0.42	0.54	0.59
Gender (male)	−0.51	0.34	−1.51	0.13
Years of birth (>1972)	−0.83	0.34	−2.44	0.01
Professional activity (private and public)	−0.61	0.37	−1.65	0.1
Item 7. Prescription of lowering molar
Intercept	−2.94	0.46	−6.42	1.38E−10
Years of birth (>1972)	1.4	0.53	2.63	0.01
Item 9. Prescription of X-ray-OPG
Intercept	0.84	0.33	2.52	0.01
Professional activity (private and public)	−0.97	0.37	−2.62	0.01