Comparative Evaluation of Different Numerical Pain Scales Used for Pain Estimation during Debonding of Orthodontic Brackets

Table 6

Correlations of component and total scores of PCS with VAS scores.

	Rumination			Magnification			Helplessness			Total PCS
	M	F	T	M	F	T	M	F	T	M	F	T
Overall	0.37	0.38	0.38	0.09	0.10	0.09	0.36	0.34	0.34	0.37	0.38	0.37
Upper total	0.31	0.33	0.31	0.08	0.08	0.08	0.29	0.27	0.27	0.30	0.30	0.30
Upper right	0.27	0.23	0.25	0.02	0.04	0.02	0.30	0.30	0.30	0.24	0.22	0.22
Upper left	0.34	0.34	0.34	0.17	0.16	0.15	0.23	0.26	0.23	0.27	0.37	0.34
Upper anterior	0.33	0.31	0.31	0.10	0.09	0.09	0.26	0.29	0.27	0.31	0.30	0.30
Upper posterior	0.31	0.28	0.30	0.10	0.12	0.10	0.25	0.31	0.29	0.25	0.29	0.27
Lower total	0.40	0.42	0.42	0.64	0.56	0.61	0.35	0.31	0.32	0.38	0.37	0.37
Lower right	0.44	0.42	0.42	0.69	0.71	0.71	0.34	0.33	0.33	0.33	0.39	0.38
Lower left	0.43	0.39	0.40	0.55	0.50	0.50	0.36	0.30	0.32	0.37	0.36	0.36
Lower anterior	0.41	0.42	0.42	0.74	0.69	0.70	0.29	0.27	0.27	0.30	0.39	0.36
Lower posterior	0.40	0.43	0.43	0.63	0.62	0.62	0.32	0.34	0.32	0.35	0.39	0.38

and statistically significant.