36 Chapter 2 Table 8 - Differences Between Patients Who Underwent Surgery and Radiation Therapy vs Patients Who Underwent Radiation Therapy Alone Surgery and radiation therapy (n = 31) Radiation therapy alone (n = 18) Total p Appearance 2.1613 1.4444 1.8980 .012 Speaking 2.2903 1.5000 2.0000 .006 Eating 2.3548 1.7778 2.1429 .087 For the items “appearance”, “speaking”, and “eating”, 1 = very satisfied, 2 = satisfied, 3 = neutral, 4 = dissatisfied, and 5 = very dissatisfied. Table 9 - Differences Between Patients Without a Bony Defect vs Patients With a Total Mandibular Defect Without bony defect (n) Total mandibular defect (n) Total p Overall denture satisfaction 7.4091 (44) 6.4000 (5) 7.3061 .323 Mandibular denture satisfaction 7.5114 (44) 6.5000 (4) 7.4271 .405 Denture satisfaction General 1.9767 (43) 2.7500 (4) 2.0426 .174 Maxillary denture 2.0732 (41) 2.5000 (4) 2.1333 .329 Mandibular denture 1.9545 (44) 2.5000 (4) 2.0000 .326 Appearance 1.8409 (44) 2.4000 (5) 1.8980 .233 Retention 2.0455 (44) 2.0000 (5) 2.0408 .926 Functional comfort 2.1705 (44) 2.2000 (5) 2.1735 .960 Eating 2.0227 (44) 3.2000 (5) 2.1429 .027 Speaking 1.8864 (44) 3.0000 (5) 2.0000 .017 For the items “overall denture satisfaction” and “mandibular denture satisfaction” the range was 0 to 10 with 0 being completely dissatisfied and 10 being completely satisfied. For items under the “denture satisfaction” heading, 1 = very satisfied, 2 = satisfied, 3 = neutral, 4 = dissatisfied, and 5 = very dissatisfied. Bold numbers indicate statistical significance (p ≤ .05)
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