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

Table 3

Association between palatal vault angle and mucosal thickness.

Tooth	Mucosal thickness (mean ± SD)			p-value
	Shallow	Moderate	Deep
Canine	3.14 ± 0.83^A	3.09 ± 0.91^A	3.16 ± 0.70^A	0.856
First premolar	3.12 ± 0.86^A	3.31 ± 0.89^A	3.39 ± 0.86^A	0.515
Second premolar	3.03 ± 0.79^A	3.22 ± 0.95^A	3.35 ± 0.83^A	0.352
First molar	2.61 ± 0.84^A	2.52 ± 0.75^A	2.65 ± 0.66^A	0.466
Second molar	2.93 ± 0.95^A	2.71 ± 1.13^A	2.43 ± 0.80^A	0.082

^ADifferent superscripts letters within the same horizontal row are significantly different.