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

Table 4

The mean anteroposterior (A-P) length and superoinferior (S-I) width of soft palate patterns according to stagewise distribution of OSMF using Kruskal Wallis test.

Velar dimensions	OSMF staging		Mean	Standard deviation	value
A-P length	Stage I	7	32.96	1.844	0.002
	Stage II	29	32.70	3.055
	Stage III	14	29.98	1.385
	Total	50	32.09	2.834
S-I width	Stage I	7	8.97	1.001	0.001
	Stage II	29	10.00	1.152
	Stage III	14	11.18	.592
	Total	50	10.19	1.220

Statistically significant, .