| EHS | Early Wound Healing Score |
| IQR | interquartile range |
| ROC | receiver operating characteristic |
| AUC | area under the curve |
| FGG | free gingival graft |
| CTG | connective tissue graft |
| ICC | intraclass correlation coefficient |
| CI | confidence interval |
| STROBE | Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology |
| OHStat | Oral Health Statistics |
| ICMJE | International Committee of Medical Journal Editors |
| CLIP | Clinical Images and Photographs |
| HbA1c | glycated hemoglobin |
| CSR | Clinical Signs of Re-epithelialization |
| CSH | Clinical Signs of Hemostasis |
| CSI | Clinical Signs of Inflammation |
| SD | standard deviation |
| ANOVA | analysis of variance |
| PSM | propensity score matching |
| SMD | standardized mean differences |
| OR | odds ratio |
| AIC | Akaike’s Information Criterion |
| VIF | variance inflation factor |
| NPV | negative predictive value |