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 5 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 the sites.
Site | U1-U1 & U1–U2 | U1–U2 & U2–U3 | U1-U1 & U2–U3 | ||||||
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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 | |
4 mm | 0.074 | 0.326 | 0.022* | 0.851 | 0.987 | 0.004* | 0.021* | 0.408 | 0.788 |
6 mm | 0.442 | 0.190 | 0.023* | 0.884 | 0.654 | 0.001* | 0.216 | 0.648 | 0.401 |
8 mm | 0.448 | 0.155 | 0.001* | 0.523 | 0.663 | * | 0.065 | 0.569 | 0.497 |
* value Maxillary central incisors (U1-U1), maxillary central and lateral incisor (U1–U2), and maxillary lateral incisor and canine (U2–U3). |