The Difference in Cervical Vertebral Skeletal Maturation between Cleft Lip/Palate and Non-Cleft Lip/Palate Orthodontic Patients

Table 3

Comparison of mean age of subjects at CVS 3 stage. Student’s -test was used to compare the mean age between the UCLP and non-CLP groups. A value of <0.05 was used to report the statistical significance of the results.

Type of patients	Mean age	Mean difference	Standard deviation	Std error of mean	value	value
UCLP	13.86	0.9	1.30	0.33	2.695	0.009
Non-CLP	12.95		1.08	0.15