Research Article
Dimension and Location of the Mandibular Lingula: Comparisons of Gender and Skeletal Patterns Using Cone-Beam Computed Tomography
Table 3
Distance of ramal landmarks related to lingula with their skeletal comparisons.
| Variables | Class I | Class II | Class III | Intergroup comparison | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | F | value | | Tukey HSD postcomparison |
| Li-EOR | 18.86 | 3.51 | 18.71 | 2.48 | 20.00 | 2.78 | 2.678 | 0.072 | ─ | | Li-IOR | 12.45 | 1.88 | 12.83 | 2.76 | 12.73 | 2.07 | 0.372 | 0.690 | ─ | | Li-PBR | 15.36 | 2.04 | 15.51 | 1.92 | 14.83 | 2.05 | 1.476 | 0.232 | ─ | | Li-vMF | 8.24 | 1.93 | 7.83 | 2.64 | 8.11 | 2.62 | 0.345 | 0.709 | ─ | | Li-Sm | 19.74 | 3.16 | 20.72 | 3.42 | 19.77 | 2.91 | 1.378 | 0.255 | ─ | | Li-IBR | 31.28 | 3.71 | 31.40 | 3.86 | 30.95 | 3.94 | 0.176 | 0.839 | ─ | | Li-hMF | 2.12 | 1.27 | 1.80 | 1.44 | 2.81 | 1.46 | 6.537 | 0.002 | | Class III > class I, Class III > Class II |
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: significant, . ─: not significant. |