Table 2.

Descriptive statistics of force loss with regard to wire type

Beschreibende Statistik des Kraftverlustes in Abhängigkeit vom Drahttyp

Wire type	N	Mean	Std. deviation	Minimum	Maximum
SS	10	33.7	3.9	27.9	38.5
TMA‑C	10	72.1	12.2	53.5	86.3
TMA-Low	10	48.8	7.4	43.1	69.0
Total	30	51.5	18.0	27.9	86.3

SS stainless steel archwire, TMA‑C conventional titanium molybdenum alloy (TMA) archwire, TMA-Low low-friction TMA archwire, Std. deviation standard deviation