Research Article
The Reliability of a New Device for Measuring the Maximum Bite Force
Table 1
Distribution of subjects according to mean height, weight, BMI, and the number of intact teeth present in OSMF and healthy groups.
| Variables | OSMF group | Healthy group | value | value | Mean | Std. dev. | Mean | Std. dev. |
| Age | 38.32 | 5.40 | 39.07 | 4.89 | -0.7973 | 0.4269 | Weight (kg) | 69.40 | 6.30 | 69.60 | 6.88 | -0.1661 | 0.8684 | Height (m) | 1.72 | 0.09 | 1.69 | 0.07 | 1.9270 | 0.0564 | BMI | 23.72 | 3.57 | 24.51 | 3.21 | -1.2617 | 0.2096 | Intact teeth, number | 29.65 | 2.34 | 29.60 | 1.06 | 0.1506 | 0.8805 |
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Std. dev: standard deviation.
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