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Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Fig. 2 | Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Fig. 2

From: Qualitative correlation between postoperatively increased vertical dimension and mandibular position in skeletal class III using partial-least-square path modeling

Fig. 2

Outer and inner models derived via partial-least-square path modeling (PLS-PM). The three larger rectangles represent the outer models, wherein the latent variables (LVs) LVoverall, LV10, and LV1 are formed by their corresponding manifest variables (MVs), represented by the smaller rectangles. The ovoid in the middle represents the quantitative interrelationship between LVs representing the inner model. The vertical arrows indicate the effect of VD on the LVsetback or on the amount of mandibular setback (i.e., the absolute value of the final setback of B point), indicating that an increase in VD10 (blue arrow) results in a decrease in the final mandibular setback amount measured at T 2 (red arrow), observed as a more severe relapse

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