Table 2.
Distraction site displacement (mean value) during mastication (Group 2)
| Left Chew Displacement (mm)
|
Right chew Displacement (mm)
|
Total Mobility‡ (mm)
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pig No. | Pig Weight (Kg) | Chewing side (L/R) | SL | IL | IM | SL | IL | IM | SL | IL | IM |
| 17 | 16.0 | 30/26 | ND | ND | −0.37 | ND | ND | −0.18 | ND | ND | 0.37 |
| 18 | 16.0 | 25/0† | ND | ND | −0.44 | ND | ND | ND | ND | ND | 0.44 |
| 19 | 12.2 | 20/4 | 0.21 | −0.07 | −0.27 | −0.36 | 0.11 | 0.10 | 0.57 | 0.18 | 0.37 |
| 20 | 15.6 | ND | ND | ND | ND | ND | ND | ND | ND | ND | ND |
| 21 | 6.8 | 30/5 | 0.33 | −0.14 | −0.14 | −0.33 | 0.09 | −0.12 | 0.66 | 0.23 | 0.14 |
| 22 | 5.4 | 22/0 | 0.19 | −0.19 | −0.14 | ND | ND | ND | 0.19 | 0.19 | 0.14 |
| 23 | 4.1 | 37/7 | 0.36 | −0.11 | −0.30 | 0.35 | −0.08 | −0.18 | 0.36 | 0.11 | 0.30 |
| 24 | 7.2 | 14/0† | 0.09 | −0.09 | −0.19 | ND | ND | ND | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.19 |
| 25 | 15.8 | 21/0 | 0.19 | −0.52 | −0.42 | ND | ND | ND | 0.19 | 0.52 | 0.42 |
| 26 | 12.7 | 26/8 | 0.28 | −0.01 | ND | −0.15 | −0.57 | ND | 0.43 | 0.57 | ND |
| 27 | 22.6 | 21/0 | 0.25 | −0.26 | −0.30 | ND | ND | ND | 0.25 | 0.26 | 0.30 |
| 28 | 21.8 | 33/9 | 0.21 | −0.30 | −0.35 | −0.17 | −0.22 | −0.26 | 0.38 | 0.30 | 0.35 |
(L/R): number of left and right cycles analyzed.
†
assumed all left cycles due to lack of EMG.
‡
the larger value if left and right chews had the same polarity or the sum of absolute values if polarities were opposite. ND, no data.