Research Article
Occurrence of the Elongated Styloid Process on Digital Panoramic Radiographs in the Riyadh Population
Table 2
Association of styloid process elongation, symptoms, and sides of the symptoms between different age groups.
| Mean length among age groups (in mm) | Age groups | | Right | Left | Less than 20 years | N | 32 | 32 | Mean | 13.40 | 12.73 | SD | 17.03 | 15.03 | 20–29 | N | 102 | 102 | Mean | 12.85 | 11.43 | SD | 17.01 | 16.93 | 30–39 | N | 70 | 70 | Mean | 16.22 | 19.81 | SD | 17.56 | 18.07 | 40–49 | N | 58 | 58 | Mean | 13.77 | 16.69 | SD | 15.89 | 17.14 | Above 50 years | N | 38 | 38 | Mean | 14.54 | 15.15 | SD | 16.06 | 16.23 | Total | N | 300 | 300 | Mean | 14.09 | 15.01 | SD | 16.64 | 17.07 |
| Association of styloid process elongation among different age groups | | | | Age groups | χ2 value | value | | | | Less than 20 years | 20–29 | 30–39 | 40–49 | Above 50 years | Elongated | No | N | 28 | 70 | 44 | 46 | 30 | 4.909 | 0.297 | Yes | N | 4 | 32 | 26 | 12 | 8 | Symptoms | No | N | 30 | 88 | 64 | 52 | 38 | 3.357 | 0.5 | Yes | N | 2 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
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Statistical significance set at 0.05; N, number of samples; χ2 value, chi-square value. |