Frictional resistance in monocrystalline ceramic brackets with conventional and nonconventional elastomeric ligatures

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Table 2 Statistical between-group comparisons (ANOVA on ranks with Tukey's post hoc tests)

SENT (in.)	CM (mm)	P value
		Inspire Ice-CEL vs Inspire Ice-NCEL	Radiance-CEL vs Radiance-NCEL	Pure CEL vs Pure NCEL	Inspire Ice-CEL vs Pure CEL	Inspire Ice-CEL vs Radiance-CEL	Radiance-CEL vs Pure CEL	Inspire Ice-NCEL vs Pure NCEL	Inspire Ice-NCEL vs Radiance-NCEL	Radiance-NCEL vs Pure NCEL
0.12	1.5	<0.001	<0.001	0.955	0.004	>0.999	0.781	>0.999	>0.999	>0.999
	3.0	<0.001	<0.001	0.093	>0.999	0.001	<0.001	>0.999	>0.999	>0.999
	4.5	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.999	<0.001	<0.001	>0.999	0.046	0.915
	6.0	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.225	0.995	<0.001	0.884	0.999	>0.999
0.14	1.5	<0.001	<0.001	0.001	>0.999	>0.999	0.138	>0.999	>0.999	0.999
	3.0	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	>0.999	<0.001	<0.001	>0.999	<0.001	<0.001
	4.5	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	>0.999	<0.001	<0.001	0.745	<0.001	<0.001
	6.0	<0.001	<0.001	0.008	0.009	<0.001	<0.001	>0.999	<0.001	<0.001

CM canine misalignment, SENT superelastic nickel titanium wire, CEL conventional elastomeric ligatures, NCEL nonconventional elastomeric ligatures.