Characteristics differentiating two groups of adolescents were identified: those planning orthodontic treatment and a comparison group not planning treatment. Two separate analyses, for psychosocial and dental-related variables, were completed. Additional analyses were applied using salient variables for each group. Eighty-two percent of the subjects were correctly categorized using the resulting discriminant function.
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