Analysing the potential of hydrophilic adhesive systems to optimise orthodontic bracket rebonding

Head & Face Medicine

Table 1 Results for the main effects of comparisons 1-3

Comparison	Main effect(s)	SBS p-value ^a	ARI p-value ^a	Enamel fractures p-value ^b	Pairwise comparisons
Part 1 - Conventional orthodontic bonding systems	Group (4 levels)	< 0.0001	0.2734	0.0054	Statistically significant differences are indicated in Fig. 2a-c.
Part 2 - Strength enhancing orthodontic bonding systems	Primer (2 levels)	0.0014	< 0.0001	0.0046	Statistically significant differences are indicated in Fig. 3a-c.
	Rebonding (2 levels)	< 0.0001	0.0043	0.8798
	Primer*Rebonding	0.2675	0.0003	0.1629
Part 3 - Comparison of different rebonding systems	Group (7 Levels)	< 0.0001	< 0.0001	0.0008	Statistically significant differences are indicated in Fig. 4a-c.

^a The p-values for the main effects were obtained from a linear regression model
^b The p-values for the main effects were obtained from a logistic regression model with Firth’s bias correction.

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