Gaining Surgical Access for Repositioning the Inferior Alveolar Neurovascular Bundle

Table 1

Mean measurement with standard deviation and the corresponding 95% confidence interval for the distances of the mandibular canal to the inferior border and buccal cortex of the mandible.

Position	Mean ± SD; 95% confidence interval of distance from the mandibular canal to two cortical borders of mandible, namely,
	Inferior	Buccal
D1	9.37±1.69 (9.07–9.68) mm	3.90±1.01 (3.71–4.08) mm
D2	8.24±1.69 (7.93–8.55) mm	5.59±1.20 (5.38–5.81) mm
D3	7.96±1.93 (7.61–8.31) mm	6.71±1.34 (6.47–6.95) mm
D4	9.66±2.54 (9.20–10.12) mm	5.69±1.63 (5.39–5.98) mm
D5	15.21±4.18 (14.46–15.97) mm	4.25±1.60 (3.96–4.54) mm
Overall	10.09±3.69 (9.79–10.39) mm	5.23±1.71 (5.09–5.36) mm