Table 5. ODI and APDI values comparison between balanced and skeletal open bite subjects with class I, class II and class III malocclusion.
| Compared study groups | Mean difference | 95% Confidence Interval | |||
| Lower Limit | Upper Limit | ||||
| ODI | |||||
| P1 | P2 | ||||
| BAL - CI OB | 6.236 | <0.001 | <0.001 | 3.895 | 8.578 |
| BAL - CII OB | 4.909 | <0.001 | 2.567 | 7.251 | |
| BAL - CIII OB | 11.817 | <0.001 | 9.475 | 14.159 | |
| CI OB - CII OB | -1.327 | 0.458 | -3.669 | 1.015 | |
| CI OB - CIII OB | 5.58 | <0.001 | 3.239 | 7.922 | |
| CII OB - CIII OB | 6.908 | <0.001 | 4.566 | 9.25 | |
| APDI | |||||
| P3 | P4 | ||||
| BAL - CI OB | 1.399 | <0.001 | 0.11 | 0.503 | 2.294 |
| BAL - CII OB | 9.281 | <0.001 | 8.198 | 10.364 | |
| BAL - CIII OB | -4.215 | <0.001 | -5.203 | -3.227 | |
| CI OB - CII OB | 7.882 | <0.001 | 6.652 | 9.113 | |
| CI OB - CIII OB | -5.613 | <0.001 | -6.761 | -4.466 | |
| CII OB - CIII OB | 13.496 | <0.001 | -14.795 | -12.196 | |
P1:One-way ANOVA test. P2: Tukey HSD test. P3:Kruskal-Wallis test. P4:Mann-Whitney-U test. OB: open bite; BAL: balanced; CI: Class I; CII: Class II; CIII: Class III.