Table 3.

Comparison of skeletal cephalometric measurements (both linear and angular) for pleasing young North Indian population with normal cephalometric values (mean±SD)

Skeletal cephalometric measurements	Male			Female
	Study sample values	Normal values	P	Study sample values	Normal values	P
Linear (mm)
Upper facial height	57.97±4.11	45.7±4.9	<0.001	58.17±4.54	45.3±4.6	<0.001
Lower facial height	66.90±6.55	55.2±5.6	<0.001	62.60±4.85	56.7±6.5	0.005
B-Pog	6.42±1.54	8.9±1.7	<0.001	6.20±1.45	7.2±1.7	0.042
Angular (degree)
SNA angle	80.40±3.76	82±2	0.877	79.73±3.99	82±2	0.923
SNB angle	81.27±3.67	80±2	0.928	79.00±3.64	80±2	0.867
ANB angle	-0.80±2.28	2±2	0.878	-0.07±2.24	2±2	0.899
Facial angle	88.47±3.19	87.8±3.57	0.826	87.47±4.22	88.3±4.11	0.893
Y-axis angle	66.47±3.13	66.5±2.4	0.837	66.13±4.54	66.0±2.0	0.708
Facial convexity angle	-2.63±4.79	0.03±5.09	0.142	-0.83±4.44	0.06±3.61	0.570