An Innovative Approach to Evaluate the Morphological Patterns of Soft Palate in Oral Submucous Fibrosis Patients: A Digital Cephalometric Study

Table 1

Comparison of anteroposterior (A-P) length and superoinferior (S-I) width in the study and control group using Kruskal Wallis test.

Type of soft palate	Length of soft palate	Group	(number) (%)	Mean	Standard deviation	value
Type 1	A-P length	Study group	24 (52.2%)	34.00	2.552	0.001
		Control group	22 (47.8%)	36.82	1.107
	S-I width	Study group	24	10.14	.629	0.007
		Control group	22	9.73	.400
Type 2	A-P length	Study group	9 (34.6%)	31.80	.993	0.001
		Control group	17 (65.4%)	35.31	.893
	S-I width	Study group	9	8.34	.770	0.062
		Control group	17	8.60	.357
Type 3	A-P length	Study group	10 (66.7%)	28.99	1.382	0.020
		Control group	5 (33.3%)	30.64	.772
	S-I width	Study group	10	11.66	.538	0.327
		Control group	5	11.42	.326
Type 4	A-P length	Study group	2 (40.0%)	28.98	1.202	0.083
		Control group	3 (60.0%)	35.15	.507
	S-I width	Study group	2	9.80	.778	0.083
		Control group	3	5.62	.195
Type 6	A-P length	Study group	5 (62.5%)	30.89	1.269	0.230
		Control group	3 (37.5%)	31.90	1.294
	S-I width	Study group	5	10.95	.325	0.025
		Control group	3	9.14	.259

Statistically significant, .