Table 3.

Cephalometric parametric values in each breathing-pattern group.

	Mouth-breathers	Oronasal-breathers	Nasal-breathers	P-value
SNA	78.6 ± 3.7	79.5 ± 3.7	79.7 ± 3.8	0.229
SNB	77.4 ± 4.1	77.5 ± 3.3	78.4 ± 3.6	0.511
ANB	1.2 ± 2.1	1.9 ± 2.1	1.3 ± 2.4	0.812
FMA	29.3 ± 5.7	27.3 ± 5.8	25.2 ± 5.9	0.014*
ANS-Me	72.8 ± 5.1	72.4 ± 5.7	69.8 ± 4.9	0.021*
MP-H	13.1 ± 4.8	12.7 ± 5.2	12.0 ± 5.0	0.387
C3-H	35.6 ± 3.9	37.0 ± 4.4	37.9 ± 4.5	0.023*
Me-H	41.5 ± 5.4	40.8 ± 6.3	41.5 ± 5.6	0.821
PNS-P	32.9 ± 5.5	34.1 ± 6.0	36.2 ± 5.2	0.021*

*Comparison between mouth and nasal-breathers. Mann–Whitney U-test, p < 0.05.