Table 2 Comparison of working time (seconds) for wireless and wired IOSs in the first, second, third, and fourth iterations (N = 14 per IOS type).

From: Prediction of learning curves of wired and wireless intraoral scanners

Trial no

IOS type

Mean

SD

Median

95% confidence interval

P

P

Lower limit

Upper limit

Wireless IOS

Wired IOS

1

Wireless IOS

564.07

92.13

580.50

515.80

612.33

0.008*

 < 0.001 **

A

 < 0.001 **

A

Wired IOS

456.14

88.41

462.50

409.82

502.45

2

Wireless IOS

438.78

83.37

462.00

395.11

482.45

0.077

AB

AB

Wired IOS

392.07

72.79

415.00

353.94

430.20

3

Wireless IOS

396.85

69.02

413.00

360.70

433.01

0.035*

B

BC

Wired IOS

355.50

55.37

373.00

326.49

384.50

4

Wireless IOS

348.71

56.42

358.00

319.15

378.27

0.194

B

C

Wired IOS

315.57

55.73

326.50

286.37

344.76

  1. IOS intraoral scanner.
  2. *Significant difference between two IOSs determined by the Mann–Whitney U-test, P < 0.05.
  3. **Significant difference determined by the Friedman test, P < 0.05.
  4. Same capital letters (column) are not significantly different in fourth iterations according to the Mann–Whitney U-test and the Bonferroni correction method (P < 0.0083).