Table 6.
Direction of greatest stiffness by degrees. Sites that did not show a significant mean vector orientation as determined with Rayleigh’s test of uniformity are excluded. At sites where mean vector orientations were significant for both dentate and edentulous groups, none showed a significant difference in orientation at P<0.05.
| Mean Vector |
Circular CI |
Mean Vector |
Circular CI | Difference | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dentate | Edentate | |||||
| Site | Mean ° | 95% CI | Mean ° | 95% CI | ||
| Maxilla | 1 | −11 | ±34 | NS | ||
| 5 | 7 | ±24 | −3 | ±32 | 10 | |
| 6 | −1 | ±33 | NS | |||
| 7 | 2 | ±34 | −4 | ±30 | 6 | |
| 9 | −11 | ±27 | NS | |||
| 11 | 5 | ±16 | −12 | ±26 | 17 | |
| 12 | −14 | ±28 | −7 | ±31 | 7 | |
| 14 | NS | 86 | ±24 | |||
| Zygomatic | 19 | NS | 43 | ±21 | ||
| 20 | 23 | ±8 | NS | |||
| Temporal | 23 | 6 | ±20 | NS | ||
| Frontal | 24 | 23 | ±23 | NS | ||