Table 3.
Differences between the basal mesial or distal and the vertical or horizontal group of the flèche cervicale, -lombaire and the trunk inclination (P was set at <0.05) determined by Mann–Whitney U test
| Statistics | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cephalometric measurement | Facial axis | Mandibular plane | Inner gonial angle | Lower facial height | Facial depth | Maxilla position | ||||||||||||
| Skeletal Pattern | Vertical (n = 26) | Horizontal (n = 40) | P value | Vertical (n = 20) | Horizontal (n = 46) | P value | Vertical (n = 28) | Horizontal (n = 38) | P value | Vertical (n = 30) | Horizontal (n = 36) | P value | Mesial (n = 36) | Distal (n = 30) | P value | Mesial (n = 26) | Distal (n = 40) | P value |
| Flèche cervicale, mm (23.68 mm, ± 8.55 mm) | 23.84 ± 7.53 | 23.58 ± 9.24 | 0.958 | 26.28 ± 7.10 | 22.55 ± 8.94 | 0.074 | 26.19 ± 7.31 | 21.83 ± 9.01 | 0.04 | 23.29 ± 8.3 | 24.01 ± 8.82 | 0.643 | 22.56 ± 8.91 | 25.03 ± 8.03 | 0.198 | 25.54 ± 7.37 | 22.47 ± 9.12 | 0.093 |
| Flèche lombaire, mm (30.67 mm, ± 10.84 mm) | 29.63 ± 7.94 | 31.35 ± 12.42 | 0.462 | 35.52 ± 4.64 | 28.56 ± 12.06 | 0.007** | 36.63 ± 8.35 | 26.28 ± 10.48 | 0.001** | 36.61 ± 6.47 | 32.43 ± 7.312 | 0.017* | 30.44 ± 13.21 | 30.97 ± 7.24 | 0.959 | 32.08 ± 10.62 | 29.75 ± 11.01 | 0.248 |
| Trunk inclination, ° (1.21°, ± 2.90°) | 1.79 ± 2.81 | 0.83 ± 2.94 | 0.115 | 0.44 ± 2.41 | 1.55 ± 3.06 | 0.199 | −0.06 ± 2.59 | 2.15 ± 2.79 | 0.004** | 1.11 ± 2.92 | 1.29 ± 2.93 | 0.877 | 1.24 ± 3.18 | 1.18 ± 2.59 | 0.877 | 0.89 ± 2.72 | 1.43 ± 3.03 | 0.294 |
* Significant ** highly significant