Research Article
Case Series of an Intraoral Balancing Appliance Therapy on Subjective Symptom Severity and Cervical Spine Alignment
Table 2
Immediate change in degree of rotational misalignment between C1 and C2 vertebrae on a computed tomography image.
| | No. (%)* | Degree of the rotational misalignment | Immediate change | Without an intraoral appliance | With an intraoral appliance |
| Groups based on type of the change | | | | | Decrease | 36 (62.1) | 6.1 ± 5.0 | 3.3 ± 4.1 | −2.8 ± 2.0*** | No change | 16 (27.6) | 2.4 ± 2.2 | 2.4 ± 2.2 | 0 | Increase | 6 (10.3) | 2.7 ± 2.1 | 5.3 ± 3.5 | 2.7 ± 2.7** |
| Total | 58 (100.0) | 4.7 ± 4.5 | 3.3 ± 3.6 | −1.4 ± 2.5*** |
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*There were missing data in one case. Values are presented as number (%) or mean ± SD.
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, *** by Wilcoxon signed-rank test.
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