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.
Variables
Class I
Class II
Class III
Intergroup comparison
Mean
SD
Mean
SD
Mean
SD
value
Age
25.3
5.70
25.8
5.95
23.8
5.54
1.897
0.154
─
ANB
2.2
1.21
7.1
2.05
-4.4
3.10
279.543
<0.001
BMI
21.9
3.44
20.9
2.87
21.7
3.34
1.152
0.319
─
Hyoid
Horizontal
33.7
6.18
27.1
5.95
36.1
7.09
24.721
<0.001
,
Vertical
74.1
10.37
71.7
8.80
70.8
8.14
1.522
0.222
─
Pogonion
Horizontal
74.3
7.84
63.7
8.42
80.2
10.43
40.442
<0.001
Vertical
77.5
9.87
74.6
8.74
74.0
8.46
1.684
0.189
─
BMI: body mass index. Intergroup comparison: statistically significant, .