Postoperative Skeletal Stability and Pharyngeal Airway: Counterclockwise versus Clockwise Rotation during Mandibular Setback Surgery

Table 3

The clockwise and counterclockwise rotation of mandibular setback in the final surgical changes (T31) by Student’s t-test.

Variables	Clockwise		Counterclockwise		Intergroup group comparison
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	value
C4C2-SN angle	3.65	5.35	2.68	5.44	0.58	—
Palatal angle	5.25	6.58	2.35	5.97	0.13	—
Soft palate width	−0.29	1.71	−0.43	1.65	0.82	—
Soft palate length	1.31	2.70	0.99	4.01	0.76	—
Pharyngeal airway
NOP	−0.16	1.95	−0.10	2.08	0.20	—
UOP	−2.26	2.06	−2.83	2.36	0.37	—
TOP	−3.11	3.06	−3.69	4.31	0.64	—
EOP	−1.51	3.85	−0.87	2.55	0.50	—
Hyoid
Horizontal	−5.75	4.06	−4.42	6.12	0.47	—
Vertical	2.97	6.38	1.47	5.98	0.36	—
Menton
Horizontal	−13.06	3.32	−12.56	4.29	0.63	—
Vertical	3.29	3.01	−2.41	1.66	<0.01

Statistically significant; ; —: not significant.