Importance in the Occurrence Distribution of Minimum Oropharyngeal Cross-Sectional Area in the Different Skeletal Patterns Using Cone-Beam Computed Tomography

Table 3

Oropharyngeal airway spaces in the skeletal patterns using one-way ANOVA with Tukey’s HSD post hoc test.

Angles	Class I		Class II		Class III				Intergroup comparison
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD		value
UOA (mm^2)	443.9	92.46	377.2	91.29	468.5	121.77	9.342	<0.001	,
MUOA (mm^2)	95.1	45.36	78.8	42.41	118.3	55.94	8.489	<0.001
UOV (mm^3)	12682.9	4100.43	10658.7	3425.23	13801.9	5466.62	5.823	0.004
LOA (mm^2)	272.8	89.49	225.4	91.94	289.7	111.49	5.237	0.006
MLOA (mm^2)	110.6	33.23	86.0	38.79	113.4	51.72	5.117	0.007
LOV (mm^3)	7159.7	3020.93	6051.5	3215.32	7773.5	3912.60	3.070	0.049
MTOA (mm^2)†	85.5	34.12	69.6	33.83	96.0	42.35	6.200	0.003
TOV (mm^3)	19842.6	5952.78	16710.1	6007.16	21575.4	8638.67	5.535	0.005

UOA: upper orophyngeal area; MUOA: minimum upper oropharyngeal area; UOV: upper oropharyngeal volume; LOA: lower oropharyngeal area; MLOA: minimum lower phsryngeal area; LOV: lower oropharyngeal volume; MTOA: minimum total oropharyngeal area; TOV: total oropharyngeal volume. †MTOA: Class I (); Class II (); Class III (). Intergroup comparison: statistically significant, . ─: not significant.