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Table 4 Partial rank correlations, with age at death (yr) as confounder, of periodontal and dental pathologies with TMJ-OA lesion severity (all three age classes, n = 1872)

From: Osteoarthritis of the temporomandibular joint in the Eastern Atlantic harbour seal (Phoca vitulina vitulina) from the German North Sea: a study of the lesions seen in dry bone

 

Periodontitisa)

No. of tooth fractures

No. of intravitally lost teeth

maxTMJ - OA

0.029ns

0.048*

0.096**

sumTMJ - OA

0.005ns

0.052*

0.112**

  1. a)maxTMJ-OA with maxPeriodontitis; sumTMJ-OA with sumPeriodontitis
  2. ** p ≤ 0.01* 0.01 > p < 0.05, ns p ≥ 0.05
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BMC Veterinary Research

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