Table 4.

Sex-based comparison of CTT and UTT measurements across dental malocclusion groups.

Groups	Imaging modalities	Sex	N	Mean (mm)	S.D.	t	p
C I	UTT	Female	19	35.62	2.71	-0.850	0.403
		Male	11	36.46	2.44
	CTT	Female	19	33.25	0.38	-2.987	0.006
		Male	11	37.95	0.47
C II	UTT	Female	24	34.81	2.29	-1.923	0.65
		Male	6	36.7	1.35
	CTT	Female	24	31.77	0.33	0.467	0.644
		Male	6	31.08	0.28
C III	UTT	Female	11	40.36	1.57	-0.949	0.351
		Male	19	41.06	2.15
	CTT	Female	11	38.13	0.26	-1.126	0.270
		Male	19	39.6	0.38

CI: Dental Class I malocclusion, CII: Dental Class II malocclusion, CIII: Dental Class III malocclusion, N: Sample, S.D.: Standard Deviation, p: significance value, CTT: Cephalometric tongue thickness, UTT: Ultrasonographic tongue thickness.