Table 3. Oropharyngeal dimensions.

SP: Soft palate, PPA: Posterior palatal airway, PLA: Posterior lingual airway

Variables	Number of patients	Preoperative, mean±sd	Postoperative, mean±sd	Mean difference	Mean diffefrence in %	P-value
SP Length	10	32.90±5.763	32.650±6.3860	-0.25	-0.7657	0.905
SP Thickness	10	8.30±1.947	7.310000±2.09 8	-0.99	-13.54	0.117
SP Angle	10	128.40±8.40 9	127.70±11.066	-0.7	-0.5481	0.854
PPA	10	8.250±3.190 7	10.40±4.248	2.15	20.673	0.033
PLA	10	9.60±1.897	11.80±3.853	2.2	18.644	0.027