Comparison of Soft Tissue Changes Produced by Two Different Appliances on Mixed Dentition Children

Table 2

Descriptive statistics of late mixed dentition group of RPFM.

Variable	()		()
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Soft tissue facial angle (°)	91.83	4.71	90.08	4.90	-1.75	3.14
Nose prominence (mm)	12.29	1.98	12.21	1.90	-0.47	0.97
Superior sulcus depth (mm)	3.53	1.97	3.12	1.69	-0.42	0.89
Subnasale to H-line (mm)	6.60	2.84	6.90	2.99	0.31	1.27
Skeletal profile convexity (mm)	0.43	3.19	1.82	3.22	1.38	1.64
Basic upper lip thickness (mm)	13.66	2.35	13.83	2.20	0.17	1.66
Upper lip strain (mm)	16.12	2.00	15.46	1.80	-0.66	2.08
H-line angle (°)	12.47	3.84	14.17	4.56	1.70	2.48
Lower lip to H-line (mm)	3.32	1.92	2.65	2.25	-0.68	1.31
Inferior sulcus to H-line (mm)	2.39	1.75	2.79	2.14	0.40	0.97
Soft tissue chin thickness (mm)	13.47	2.79	13.56	3.26	0.10	1.78

: pretreatment; : posttreatment; : treatment changes; SD: standard deviation.