Postanesthetic Cold Sensibility Test as an Indicator for the Efficacy of Inferior Alveolar Nerve Block in Patients with Symptomatic Irreversible Pulpitis of Mandibular Molars

Table 2

Comparison between pain perception of male and female patients to postanesthetic cold test and gold standard test, and the overall percentage of pulpal anesthetic failure and success.

Gender (total number = 54)	Patients’ responses-N (%)
	Cold test		The gold standard test (procedures test)
	Pain; (predicted failure)	No pain; (predicted success)	Pain; (true failure)	No pain; (true success)
Males (N = 35/65%)	17 (49%)	18 (51%)	19 (54%)	16 (46%)
Females (N = 19/35%)	12 (63%)	7 (27%)	12 (63%)	7 (27%)
Total-N (%)	29 (53.7%)	25 (46.3%)	31 (57.4%)	23 (42.6%)
value	0.3952		0.5766

Two-tailed Fisher exact test (difference ).