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

Table 3

Descriptive statistics of early mixed dentition group of RTB.

Variable	()		()
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Soft tissue facial angle (°)	89.43	4.07	88.82	3.90	-0.61	3.29
Nose prominence (mm)	11.04	1.83	11.22	1.32	0.18	1.39
Superior sulcus depth (mm)	3.22	1.59	2.82	1.53	-0.40	1.26
Subnasale to H-line (mm)	7.26	2.67	6.80	2.65	-0.46	1.28
Skeletal profile convexity (mm)	1.55	2.15	2.21	2.48	0.66	1.57
Basic upper lip thickness (mm)	11.81	2.38	12.03	2.08	0.22	1.35
Upper lip strain (mm)	14.88	3.06	14.35	2.94	-0.53	1.59
H-line angle (°)	14.93	3.56	14.45	3.63	-0.48	2.20
Lower lip to H-line (mm)	3.12	1.41	2.68	1.51	-0.44	0.89
Inferior sulcus to H-line (mm)	2.07	1.48	2.02	1.53	-0.05	1.13
Soft tissue chin thickness (mm)	12.38	2.97	12.13	2.60	-0.25	2.40

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