The effect of contouring on fatigue resistance of three types of fracture fixation plates

Table 3 Between group comparison p values of moment-cycle product (MCP) within each plate type

Plate type	Group	0×	3×	6×	9×
BFS Reconstruction	0×	–	>0.5	>0.5	>0.5
	3×	>0.5	–	>0.5	>0.5
	6×	>0.5	>0.5	–	>0.5
	9×	>0.5	>0.5	>0.5	–
MPS Straight	0×	–	0.156	0.219	0.023*
	3×	0.156	–	>0.5	0.322
	6×	0.219	>0.5	–	0.051
	9×	0.023*	0.322	0.051	–
MPS Flex	0×	–	0.031^$	0.344	0.301
	3×	0.031^$	–	0.145	0.032^†
	6×	0.344	0.145	–	>0.5
	9×	0.301	0.032^†	>0.5	–

Symbols correspond to Fig. 1 significance markers (*p = 0.023 for MPS Straight Plates between 0× and 9× contour repetitions; ^$ p = 0.031 for MPS Flex Plates between 0× and 3× contour repetitions; ^† p = 0.032 for MPS Flex Plates between 3× and 9× contour repetitions)

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