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Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Table 6 Relationship between FSR achievement and the duration from injury to the microneurosurgery in our study and in past studies

From: Effect of duration from lingual nerve injury to undergoing microneurosurgery on improving sensory and taste functions: retrospective study

 

Early cases

Later cases

     
 

FSR achieved

Total

FSR achieved

Total

Threshold months

P value, Fisher’s exact test

P value, chi-square test

95% CI [lower, upper]

Effect size

Current study

38

46

18

24

6

0.534

0.659

− 0.16, 0.31

0.09

Bagheri et al. [14]

125

133

76

89

6

0.037

0.056

− 0.01, 0.18

0.14

Susarla et al. [13]

13

14

31

50

3

0.047

–

0.07, 0.54

0.28

  1. Effect sizes were calculated with Fisher’s exact test. P value was not calculated with chi-square test in the study by Susarla et al. because the number of patients that did not achieve FSR among the early cases was less than five
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