Table 2.

Pretreatment oral dysfunctions/habits and incisal relationship of patients affected by unwanted tooth movements (study group) and nonaffected patients (control group)

	Study group (n = 44)		Control group (n = 43)		p-value
	n	%	n	%
Oral dysfunctions/habits at T0	19	43.2	10	23.3	0.049
Interincisal relationship at T0
Incisal overlap with interincisal contact	17	38.6	35	81.4	< 0.001
Incisal overlap without contact	26	59.1	6	14.0	< 0.001
Open bite	1	2.3	2	4.7	0.543
Interincisal relationship at T1
Incisal overlap with interincisal contact	15	34.1	27	62.8	0.007
Incisal overlap without contact	29	65.9	16	37.2	0.007
Open bite	0	0.0	0	0.0	1
Interincisal relationship at T2
Incisal overlap with interincisal contact	17	38.6	31	72.1	0.002
Incisal overlap without contact	26	59.1	11	25.6	0.002
Open bite	1	2.3	1	2.3	0.987

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