A randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of different methods on pain management during orthodontic debonding

Progress in Orthodontics

Table 4 Pairwise comparison among different treatment arms of VAS score in different areas of upper and lower jaw using independent Kruskal–Wallis test

Group pair	p value
Group pair	UR	UF	UL	UT	LR	LF	LL	LT	T
Medication—finger pressure	0.136	0.526	0.242	0.327	0.416	0.013*	0.748	0.077	0.172
Medication—stress relief	0.076	0.214	0.066	0.09	0.019*	0.002*	0.036*	0.002*	0.009*
Medication—control	0.003*	0.0001*	0.002*	0.0001*	0.004*	0.00001*	0.004*	0.00002*	0.00001*
Finger pressure—stress relief	0.778	0.544	0.504	0.474	0.128	0.505	0.076	0.169	0.215
Finger pressure—control	0.136	0.002*	0.055	0.005*	0.039*	0.041*	0.011*	0.014*	0.002*
Stress relief—control	0.227	0.012*	0.210	0.035*	0.590	0.168	0.450	0.285	0.073

UR upper right, UF upper front, UL upper left, UT upper total, LR lower right, LF lower front, LL lower left, LT lower total, T total of upper and lower
*p < 0.05 = statistically significant