Table 2.

Gender, age and surgical outcomes in the two study groups

Variable	Plates and screws	PDS suture	P
Gender
Male	13	11	0.081†
Female	18	5
Age (mean (SD))	11.87 (6.26)	11.75 (5.41)	0.948٭
Whitaker classification n(%)
I	21(67.7)	9(56.3)	0.703†
II	8(25.8)	6(37.5)
III	2(6.5)	1(6.3)
IV	0(0)	0(0)

٭ independent t-test

† chi-squared test