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

Table 3

Mean and standard deviation of palatal soft tissues measured at 5 different distances from CEJ.

	Group	Measuring point
		3 mm	6 mm	7 mm	8 mm	9 mm
First premolar	S	3.19 ± 0.66	3.99 ± 0.79	4.22 ± 0.91	4.61 ± 1.08	4.62 ± 1.23
	M	3.09 ± 0.95	3.89 ± 0.70	4.03 ± 0.82	4.17 ± 0.82	4.41 ± 0.90
	D	2.71 ± 0.50	3.47 ± 0.36	3.61 ± 0.35	3.92 ± 0.56	4.13 ± 0.66
Second premolar	S	3.20 ± 0.65	4.48 ± 0.69	5.43 ± 2.26	5.18 ± 1.00	5.70 ± 1.65
	M	3.00 ± 0.78	4.19 ± 1.23	4.63 ± 0.96	4.74 ± 0.90	4.89 ± 0.97
	D	2.85 ± 0.48	3.83 ± 0.59	4.17 ± 0.58	4.48 ± 0.57	4.67 ± 0.56
First molar	S	2.21 ± 0.61	2.69 ± 0.48	3.03 ± 0.72	3.67 ± 1.00	3.67 ± 1.01
	M	2.20 ± 0.76	2.52 ± 0.85	2.79 ± 0.77	3.34 ± 0.98	3.34 ± 0.98
	D	2.33 ± 0.62	2.28 ± 0.70	2.41 ± 0.82	3.11 ± 0.72	3.12 ± 0.72
Second molar	S	2.45 ± 0.90	3.56 ± 1.71	4.18 ± 1.96	5.05 ± 1.89	5.68 ± 2.58
	M	2.66 ± 1.19	3.11 ± 1.57	3.64 ± 1.77	4.31 ± 1.94	5.07 ± 2.15
	D	2.78 ± 1.07	3.06 ± 1.04	3.34 ± 1.36	4.02 ± 1.52	4.85 ± 1.95