Research Article

Dimension and Location of the Mandibular Lingula: Comparisons of Gender and Skeletal Patterns Using Cone-Beam Computed Tomography

Table 1

Distance of ramal landmarks related to lingula with hemiarch comparisons.

VariablesTotal patientsRight sideLeft sideRight/Left comparison
MeanSDMeanSDMeanSD value

Li-EOR19.213.0219.232.4919.203.490.954
Li-IOR12.662.2212.842.3012.472.150.319
Li-PBR15.222.0215.251.9615.192.090.860
Li-vMF8.072.398.202.137.952.640.526
Li-Sm20.043.1620.513.3919.572.860.073
Li-IBR31.203.8131.263.8031.143.850.850
Li-hMF2.271.442.051.362.491.490.063

: significant, . ─: not significant.