Results
TB
Over the course of the study, there were no subject dropouts in the pre-intervention period, nor throughout the rest of the study. All the twenty-six initially recruited subjects completed the entire study period (13 subjects per group). The patient flow throughout the trial is presented through a CONSORT Flow Diagram (Fig. 
CONSORT Flow Diagram showing the patients’ flow throughout the clinical trialBy analyzing the sagittal pharyngeal airway area measurements, it was found that NPAA, OPAA, and LPAA increased significantly after treatment within each group of MB and TB (
Intergroup and Intragroup comparison of pharyngeal airway area measurementsSD: Standard Deviation, CI: Confidence Interval, 
Intergroup comparison of the change in the skeletal cephalometric measurements
Intragroup comparison of the pretreatment and post-treatment pharyngeal airway area measurementsRegarding the skeletal angular readings within each group of MB and TB, the following results were found; there was no significant difference between SNA values at T1 and T2 within each group with 
Intergroup and Intragroup comparison of cephalometric skeletal sagittal and vertical measurementsSD: Standard Deviation, CI: Confidence Interval, 
Intergroup comparison of the change in the pharyngeal airway area measurements