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Table 5 The Influence of surgical skeletal movements on changes in airway space

From: Quantification of pharyngeal airway space changes after two-jaw orthognathic surgery in skeletal class III patients

  

Nasopharyngeal airway change

oropharynx airway change

velopharynx airway change

Total airway change

MCA(mm2)

MCA-TV(mm)

MCA-AP(mm)

Movement directions

β

P

β

P

β

P

β

P

β

P

β

P

β

P

Point A (mm)

Anteroposterior

-9.550

0.945

-42.772

0.762

-184.273

0.194

-236.594

0.461

-4.948

0.340

-0.057

-0.286

-0.251

0.537

Vertical

27.969

0.858

-127.324

0.423

163.898

0.301

64.544

0.857

-2.264

0.696

-0.395

-1.767

0.044

0.923

Point B (mm)

Anteroposterior

134.917

0.139

350.044**

0.000

311.498**

0.001

796.459**

0.000

10.958**

0.002

0.185

1.432

0.727**

0.008

Vertical

19.695

0.541

-24.109

0.460

0.244

0.994

-4.170

0.955

-0.847

0.478

-0.020

-0.425

-0.042

0.654

Point PNS (mm)

Anteroposterior

-134.444

0.110

-110.227

0.193

-10.178

0.903

-254.849

0.185

-2.414

0.433

-0.151

-1.274

-0.077

0.750

Vertical

176.200

0.362

-171.791

0.380

-322.541

0.102

-318.13

0.473

1.833

0.797

0.020

0.740

0.319

0.570

Mandibular plane Angle (°)

 

72.699

0.581

-71.900

0.590

-147.509

0.270

-146.709

0.628

0.008

0.999

0.022

0.116

0.165

0.667

Occlusal plane Angle (°)

 

139.075

0.222

211.153

0.07

-10.587

0.926

339.640

0.195

0.570

0.892

0.088

0.546

-0.067

0.838

  1. P-value: * < 0.05, ** < 0.01
  2. β: Linear regression coefficient