26 October 2022>: Clinical Research
Evaluation of Orthodontic Mini-Implant Placement in the Maxillary Anterior Alveolar Region in 15 Patients by Cone Beam Computed Tomography at a Single Center in South India
Arathi Murugesan 1BDF* , S.P. Saravana Dinesh 1BDF , Srirengalakshmi Muthuswamy Pandian 1BDE , Lichi Ashwin Solanki 1ABC , Abdulrahman Alshehri 2CDE , Wael Awadh 2BDF , Khalid J. Alzahrani 3DEF , Khalaf F. Alsharif 3DE , Mrim M. Alnfiai 4CDF , Reji Mathew 5CEF , Tarek El-Bialy 6DEF , Hosam Ali Baeshen 7DEF , Shilpa Bhandi 89CDF , A. Thirumal Raj 10ADF , Shankargouda Patil 811ACE*DOI: 10.12659/MSM.937949
Med Sci Monit 2022; 28:e937949
Table 4 Significance value obtained from ANOVA and Tukey post hoc tests comparing the mean difference of cortical thickness, labio-palatal bone thickness, and inter-radicular distance between 4 mm, 6 mm, and 8 mm.
Site | 4–6 mm | 6–8 mm | 4–8 mm | ||||||
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Cortical bone thickness | Labio-palatal bone thickness | Inter-radicular distance | Cortical bone thickness | Labio-palatal bone thickness | Inter-radicular distance | Cortical bone thickness | Labio-palatal bone thickness | Inter-radicular distance | |
U1-U1 | 0.114 | 0.948 | 0.607 | 0.960 | 0.970 | 0.177 | * | 0.997 | 0.022* |
U1–U2 | 0.364 | 0.979 | 0.692 | 0.117 | 0.825 | 0.366 | * | 0.712 | 0.085 |
U2–U3 | 0.379 | 0.847 | 0.161 | 0.003* | 0.868 | 0.150 | * | 0.999 | 0.001* |
* value Maxillary central incisors (U1-U1), maxillary central and lateral incisor (U1–U2), and maxillary lateral incisor and canine (U2–U3). |