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

: significant, . ─: not significant.