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

Table 5

Pearson test of measured angles and oropharyngeal airway.

Variables	UOA	MUOA	UOV	LOA	MLOA	LOV	MTOA	TOV
Or-Po-Pog	-0.307	-0.275	-0.196	-0.190	-0.249	-0.142	-0.244	-0.190
Or-Po-H	0.157	0.202	0.185	0.113	0.038	0.168	0.086	0.195
Or-Po-C2	-0.099	-0.094	-0.023	-0.002	0.030	0.013	-0.015	-0.009
Po-C2-Pog	-0.021	-0.038	-0.069	-0.113	-0.150	-0.129	-0.086	-0.104
Po-C2-H	0.002	-0.051	-0.030	0.039	-0.082	0.039	-0.055	-0.001
Po-C2-C4	-0.295	-0.230	-0.251	-0.180	0.153	0.118	-0.182	-0.213

UOA: upper oropharyngeal area; MUOA: minimum upper oropharyngeal area; LOA: lower oropharyngeal area; MLOA: minimum lower oropharyngeal area; UOV: upper oropharyngeal volume; LOV: lower oropharyngeal volume; MTOA: minimum total oropharyngeal area; TOV: total oropharyngeal volume; Or: orbitale; Po: porion; Pog: pogonion; H: hyoid bone; C2: second cervical vertebra; C4: fourth cervical vertebra.Statistically significant, .