Table 3.

Spearman’s correlation coefficients between treatment duration, pretreatment age, mandibular plane angle (FMA), ANB angle and thickness changes in MAS, MM and FT

	Duration	Age	FMA	ANB	MM	MAS	FT	STpre
Duration	/	−0.192	−0.115	− 0.038	0.010	− 0.066	−0.158	− 0.203
Age		/	−0.219	−0.005	0.108	0.090	−0.070	−0.065
FMA			/	0.275	−0.309*	−0.312*	− 0.013	0.236
ANB				/	−0.005	−0.198	− 0.276	−0.118
MM					/	0.784**	−0.031	− 0.059
MAS						/	0.533**	0.182
FT							/	0.308*
STpre								/

*p < 0.05

**p < 0.01