Impact of retraction force magnitudes on mobility of maxillary canines: a split-mouth design

Progress in Orthodontics

Table 2 Means and standard deviations of Periotest values of the right and left canines loaded by 100 and 200 g of force and the p value of ANOVA test

	R3 100 gm	L3 100 gm	R3 200 gm	L3 200 gm	p value
Pre-retraction	7.60 ± 1.96^abcd	7.70 ± 1.70^abcd	6.90 ± 2.33^abcde	7.10 ± 1.79^abcde	0.762
1st Month	10.50 ± 3.03^ab	11.00 ± 2.82^acd	9.80 ± 2.49^acde	10.90 ± 3.90^acde	0.820
2nd Month	12.50 ± 2.71^b	14.70 ± 3.37^ad	12.22 ± 3.17^be	12.00 ± 2.00^bcde	0.137
3rd Month	13.50 ± 3.50^ac	14.40 ± 2.88^bd	13.30 ± 3.49^ace	14.30 ± 2.11^abce	0.802
4th Month	15.20 ± 3.79^ad	16.20 ± 2.86^c	14.90 ± 3.87^ad	15.90 ± 1.52^abd	0.779
5th Month	17.20 ± 3.58^abc	17.60 ± 2.67^abd	17.00 ± 3.56^abce	17.50 ± 1.51^abce	0.967
p value	0.000*	0.000*	0.000*	0.000*

Means with the same superscript letters in column are significantly different at p ˂ 0.05 according to the least significant test (LSD) test. *Statistically significant at p value ˂ 0.05