Determination of Palatal Soft Tissue Thickness and Safe Zone for Palatal Soft Tissue Harvest Using CBCT: A Retrospective Study

Table 2

Association between the measurement distance and mucosal thickness for different teeth.

Tooth	Mucosal thickness (mean ± SD)
	3 mm	6 mm	9 mm	p-value
Canine	3.07 ± 0.80^B	3.43 ± 0.80^A	2.89 ± 0.74^B
First premolar	2.66 ± 0.66^B	3.51 ± 0.74^A	3.81 ± 0.76^A
Second premolar	2.49 ± 0.60^C	3.35 ± 0.59^B	3.95 ± 0.74^A
First molar	2.21 ± 0.63^B	2.44 ± 0.63^B	3.11 ± 0.56^A
Second molar	2.24 ± 0.90^B	2.38 ± 0.78^B	3.18 ± 0.99^A

Statistically significant. ^A,B,CDifferent superscripts letters within the same horizontal row are significantly different.