Case Series of an Intraoral Balancing Appliance Therapy on Subjective Symptom Severity and Cervical Spine Alignment

Table 3

Immediate change in degree of cervical lordosis calculated by Cobb technique on a simple X-ray image.

	No. (%)*	Mean ± SD
		Without an intraoral appliance	With an intraoral appliance	Degree of change
Groups based on the type of the change
Decrease	21 (38.2)	45.3 ± 11.4	40.5 ± 11.0	−5.1 ± 3.7**
No change	11 (20.0)	41.6 ± 3.32	41.6 ± 3.3	0
Increase	23 (41.8)	35.8 ± 10.4	41.4 ± 11.4	5.5 ± 4.7**
Total	55 (100.0)	40.6 ± 12.0	41.1 ± 11.4	0.4 ± 6.1

 *There were missing data in four cases. Values are presented as number (%) or mean ± SD.
** 𝑃<0.001 by Wilcoxon signed-rank test.