Esthetical Properties of Single-Shade and Multishade Composites in Posterior Teeth

Table 3

Mean (SD) of the number of times mean each score was given to the 23 restorations with each material and the results of t-test.

Esthetic property	Score	Mean		t-Test SS × MS (p-value)
		Single shade (SS)	Multi shade (MS)
1. Surface luster	1.1	17.6 (2.4)	18.1 (3.8)	0.7301
	1.2.1	4.6 (2.1)	4.5 (3.5)	0.9393
	1.2.2	0.4 (0.5)	0.2 (0.4)	0.3553
	1.3.1	0.4 (0.5)	0.2 (0.4)	0.3553
2. Staining
a. Surface	2.a.1	19.2 (6.1)	18.4 (7.5)	0.7971
	2.a.2	2.4 (3.8)	3.8 (5.9)	0.5382
	2.a.3	1.4 (2.6)	0.8 (2.2)	0.5872
b. Margin	2.b.1	19.3 (6.4)	18.9 (7.8)	0.9013
	2.b.2	2.5 (3.7)	3.4 (6.1)	0.6974
	2.b.3	1.2 (2.9)	0.7 (2.2)	0.6698
3. Color match and translucency	3.1	12.8 (5.2)	12.6 (4.9)	0.9177
	3.2	7.4 (3.4)	8.1 (4.1)	0.6826
	3.3.1	1.3 (1.5)	2.0 (3.1)	0.5234
	3.3.2	0.4 (0.8)	0.2 (0.6)	0.5560
	3.3.3	0.4 (0.9)	0.5 (1.5)	0.8664
	3.3.4	0.7 (2.2)	0.9 (2.8)	0.8627

Scores not presented in the table received value zero.