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

Table 4

Pearson test of clockwise and counterclockwise rotation of mandibular setback in the final surgical changes (T31).

	Clockwise				Counterclockwise
	NOP	UOP	TOP	EOP	NOP	UOP	TOP	EOP
C4C2-SN angle	−0.23	0.42	0.36	0.18	0.30	−0.01	0.38	0.00
Palatal angle	−0.17	−0.24	−0.41	−0.18	−0.08	−0.27	−0.35	−0.07
Soft palate width	−0.22	0.04	−0.02	−0.12	0.32	0.09	0.20	−0.09
Soft palate length	0.03	−0.03	−0.33	−0.03	−0.28	0.23	−0.32	0.25
Hyoid
Horizontal	0.16	−0.39	−0.14	0.00	0.04	0.01	−0.18	0.17
Vertical	−0.12	0.08	−0.03	0.36	0.01	−0.11	0.10	0.12
Menton
Horizontal	0.41	0.08	0.29	0.08	0.41	−0.03	0.12	0.22
Vertical	0.58	0.05	0.33	0.13	−0.18	0.02	−0.01	−0.08

Statistically significant; ; —: not significant.