Palatal Soft Tissue Thickness on Maxillary Posterior Teeth and Its Relation to Palatal Vault Angle Measured by Cone-Beam Computed Tomography

Table 2

Palatal tissue thickness data of all posterior teeth from 3 different palatal vault angle types.

	Total	Group S	Group M	Group D	value
Maxillary first premolar
Mean ±SD	3.90 ± 0.73	4.13 ± 0.82	3.92 ± 0.76	3.57 ± 0.36	0.113
Range	2.38–6.47	3.14–6.47	2.38–5.51	3.11–4.39
Maxillary second premolar
Mean ± SD	4.38 ± 0.83	4.80 ± 0.85	4.29 ± 0.87	4.00 ± 0.40	0.021
Range	2.04–6.51	3.16–6.51	2.04–6.17	3.43–4.84
Maxillary first molar
Mean ± SD	2.78 ± 0.68	2.97 ± 0.62	2.77 ± 0.71	2.55 ± 0.65	0.248
Range	1.39–4.31	1.81–3.89	1.49–4.31	1.39–3.59
Maxillary second premolar
Mean ± SD	3.86 ± 1.46	4.19 ± 1.70	3.76 ± 1.50	3.61 ± 0.99	0.514
Range	1.61–8.02	1.99–7.99	1.91–8.02	2.40–6.16
Maxillary posterior teeth
Mean ± SD	3.71 ± 0.65	4.02 ± 0.58	3.75 ± 0.73	3.43 ± 0.38	0.036
Range	2.14–5.27	3.31–5.24	2.14–5.22	2.99–4.25

value<0.05.