Table 3: Load relaxation comparison between different elastics.

ELASTIC TYPE		LOAD AT 1 HOUR		LOAD AT 6 HOUR		LOAD AT 12 HOUR		LOAD AT 24 HOUR		LOAD AT 48 HOUR
		Mean diff	sig.	Mean diff	sig.	Mean diff	sig.	Mean diff	sig.	Mean diff	sig.
FORESTADENT LATEX	LIGHT vs MEDIUM	-37.74	0.000	-37.13	0.000	-36.78	0.000	-34.54	0.000	-31.46	0.000
	LIGHT vs HEAVY	-108.36	0.000	-103.1	0.000	-96.15	0.000	-90.06	0.000	-86.47	0.000
	LIGHT vs MEDIUM	-70.61	0.000	-65.16	0.000	-59.37	0.000	-55.51	0.000	-55.01	0.000
FORESTADENT NON LATEX	LIGHT vs MEDIUM	-33.21	0.000	-33.18	0.000	-32.56	0.000	-31.43	0.000	-30.11	0.000
	LIGHT vs HEAVY	-126.95	0.000	-119.29	0.000	-117.28	0.000	-113.96	0.000	-107	0.000
	LIGHT vs MEDIUM	-93.74	0.000	-86.11	0.000	-84.72	0.000	-82.52	0.000	-76.88	0.000
GAC LATEX	LIGHT vs MEDIUM	-20.56	0.000	-17.55	0.000	-17.22	0.000	-14.65	0.000	-14.51	0.000
	LIGHT vs HEAVY	-50.96	0.000	-46.94	0.000	-44.18	0.000	-39.97	0.000	-40.06	0.000
	LIGHT vs MEDIUM	-30.4	0.000	-29.38	0.000	-26.16	0.000	-25.31	0.000	-25.55	0.000
GAC NON LATEX	LIGHT vs MEDIUM	-23.11	0.000	-21.17	0.000	-19.18	0.000	-17.79	0.000	-18.91	0.000
	LIGHT vs HEAVY	-58.81	0.000	-54.04	0.000	-50.35	0.000	-48.36	0.000	-46.78	0.000
	LIGHT vs MEDIUM	-35.7	0.000	-32.86	0.000	-31.17	0.000	-30.56	0.000	-27.87	0.000
GLENROE LATEX	LIGHT vs MEDIUM	-28.4	0.000	-27.51	0.000	-26.58	0.000	-24.73	0.000	-23.98	0.000
	LIGHT vs HEAVY	-46.96	0.000	-43.48	0.000	-41.35	0.000	-40.39	0.000	-37.48	0.000
	LIGHT vs MEDIUM	-18.56	0.000	-15.97	0.000	-14.77	0.000	-15.66	0.000	-13.5	0.000
GLENROE NON LATEX	LIGHT vs MEDIUM	-20.21	0.000	-21.9	0.000	-21.05	0.000	-18.79	0.000	-18.21	0.000
	LIGHT vs HEAVY	-54.77	0.000	-51.85	0.000	-48.18	0.000	-45.24	0.000	-42.39	0.000
	LIGHT vs MEDIUM	-34.55	0.000	-29.95	0.000	-27.12	0.000	-26.44	0.000	-24.18	0.000

P<0.05 = significant

Table shows that Heavy elastics had greater force loss compared to both Medium and Light elastics and Medium elastics had greater force loss than light elastics. Tukey-HSD test was done to find significance.