Research Article

Importance in the Occurrence Distribution of Minimum Oropharyngeal Cross-Sectional Area in the Different Skeletal Patterns Using Cone-Beam Computed Tomography

Table 1

Patient’s characteristics in the skeletal patterns using one-way ANOVA with Tukey’s HSD post hoc test.

VariablesClass IClass IIClass IIIIntergroup comparison
MeanSDMeanSDMeanSD value

Age25.35.7025.85.9523.85.541.8970.154
ANB2.21.217.12.05-4.43.10279.543<0.001
BMI21.93.4420.92.8721.73.341.1520.319
Hyoid
 Horizontal33.76.1827.15.9536.17.0924.721<0.001,
 Vertical74.110.3771.78.8070.88.141.5220.222
Pogonion
 Horizontal74.37.8463.78.4280.210.4340.442<0.001
 Vertical77.59.8774.68.7474.08.461.6840.189

BMI: body mass index. Intergroup comparison: statistically significant, .