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

Table 5

Association between palatal vault angle and greater palatine groove course.

Tooth	Distance of the greater palatine groove (mean ± SD)			p-value
	Shallow	Moderate	Deep
Canine	8.96 ± 0.73^AB	8.80 ± 0.88^B	9.71 ± 1.12^A
First premolar	10.27 ± 1.08^AB	10.05 ± 1.06^B	10.88 ± 1.07^A
Second premolar	11.23 ± 0.76^B	11.68 ± 0.91^B	12.97 ± 1.28^A
First molar	11.38 ± 0.56^B	11.72 ± 0.86^B	12.70 ± 1.04^A
Second molar	12.23 ± 0.21^B	12.46 ± 0.93^B	13.83 ± 1.29^A

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