Symmetrical dental occlusion blocking – changes of body sway and weight distribution in healthy subjects across 4 age decades

Table 3 Descriptive statistics of all the variables over the whole sample size. ^a behind the variable indicates a significant difference. For all variables the degree of freedom is df = 724

Variable names	Rest position			Cotton roll			Difference cotton roll – rest position			T -value	P-value
Variable names	Median	1st quantile	3rd quantile	Median	1st quantile	3rd quantile	Median	1st quantile	3rd quantile
Body sway and weight distribution
frontal sway [mm]^a	11.33	8.67	15.54	10.67	8.00	14.33	−0.67	−3.00	1.33	−3,90	< 0,001
sagittal sway [mm]^a	14.67	10.00	20.00	14.33	10.33	18.67	−0.33	−3.00	2.33	−3,36	< 0,001
left forefoot [%]^a	19.33	15.33	23.33	19.67	15.33	24.33	0.33	−1.67	2.00	2,88	< 0,001
right forefoot [%]	15.00	11.00	19.33	15.00	11.00	19.67	0.00	−1.67	1.67	0,49	0,62
left rearfoot [%]	32.33	27.67	36.67	31.67	27.33	37.00	0.00	−2.33	2.08	−1,57	0,12
right rearfoot [%]	32.67	27.67	38.00	32.50	27.00	38.00	0.00	−2.67	2.33	−1,18	0,24
left foot [%]	51.89	47.33	57.00	52.33	47.58	57.00	0.00	−2.00	2.33	1,46	0,14
overall forefoot [%]^a	33.33	28.33	41.00	34.33	28.33	42.00	0.67	−2.00	3.33	3,38	< 0,001

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