Table 3.
Spearman correlation between severity of fragmentation and displacement in relation to fracture healing outcomes.
| Fragmentation | Displacement | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bone or region | n | rho (95%CI) | n | rho (95%CI) |
| Symphysis | 10 | 0.98 (0.95, 1.00) | 10 | 0.98 (0.94, 1.00) |
| Molar region of mandible | 16 | 0.93 (0.85, 1.00) | 16 | 0.92 (0.84, 1.00) |
| Ramus | 16 | 0.91 (0.79, 1.00) | 16 | 0.92 (0.82, 1.00) |
| Condylar process | 13 | 0.87 (0.73, 1.00) | 13 | 0.89 (0.74, 1.00) |
| TMJ | 14 | 0.94 (0.85, 1.00) | 14 | 0.96 (0.92, 1.00) |
| Maxilla | 22 | 0.76 (0.55, 0.98) | 22 | 0.74 (0.50, 0.99) |
| Nasal bone | 10 | 0.98 (0.95, 1.00) | 10 | 0.99 (0.98, 1.00) |
| Zygomatic bone | 11 | 0.98 (0.96, 1.00) | 11 | 0.98 (0.96, 1.00) |
| Pterygoid | 10 | 0.97 (0.94, 1.00) | 10 | 0.97 (0.93, 1.00) |
| Lacrimal bone | 12 | 0.96 (0.96, 1.00) | 12 | 0.95 (0.89, 1.00) |
| Conchae | 14 | 0.97 (0.93, 1.00) | 14 | 0.95 (0.89, 1.00) |
| Zygomatic process | 10 | 0.99 (0.96, 1.00) | 10 | 0.99 (0.96, 1.00) |
| Palatine bone | 16 | 0.95 (0.89, 1.00) | 16 | 0.94 (0.85, 1.00) |
| Frontal bone | 11 | 0.98 (0.96, 1.00) | 11 | 0.99 (0.96, 1.00) |
| Presphenoid | 10 | 0.99 (0.97, 1.00) | 10 | 0.98 (0.95, 1.00) |
| Cribriform plate | 10 | 0.93 (0.82, 1.00) | 10 | 0.92 (0.82, 1.00) |
Note that all of the correlations are within the 95% confidence interval.