Condylar morphology and position changes after miniscrew-assisted rapid palatal expansion in skeletal Class III malocclusion adult patients with mandibular deviation and unilateral posterior crossbite

Progress in Orthodontics

Table 5 Comparison of condylar position between deviated and non-deviated sides at T1 and T2, respectively (mandibular registration)

Variables	T1	T2	Difference (DS_T1-DS_T2)	P	T1	T2	Difference (NDS_T1-NDS_T2)	P
	DS	DS	Difference (DS_T1-DS_T2)		NDS	NDS	Difference (NDS_T1-NDS_T2)
	Mean SD	Mean SD	Mean SD		\|Mean SD\|	\|Mean SD\|	Mean SD
SC-MSP(mm)	50.64 1.00	50.52 1.20	0.12 0.88	0.753^†	49.85 3.43	49.79 3.35	0.06 2.78	0.961^†
SC-FHP(mm)	1.62 1.03	0.66 0.75	0.96 0.60	0.011*^†	2.11 0.80	1.41 0.74	0.70 0.65	0.046*^†
SC-VRP(mm)	12.40 1.86	12.82 1.67	− 0.42 2.49	0.698^†	13.78 2.60	14.11 2.75	− 0.33 2.34	0.742^†

DS, deviated side; NDS, non-deviated side; *indicates a statistical significance at P < 0.05. Abbreviations are summarized in Table 1
^†paired t test