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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Jul 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Periodontol. 2000 Sep;71(9):1448–1452. doi: 10.1902/jop.2000.71.9.1448

Table 4.

Effect of root planing on pooled GCF sample volume

Site category Pretreatment volume (28 hr) Post-treatment volume (196 hr*)
Untreated control 2.38 ± 0.36 μL 1.78 ± 0.22 μL
Root-planed 2.05 ± 0.19 μL 1.49 ± 0.22 μL

Results are presented as mean ± SEM.

*

Post-treatment levels were adjusted for pretreatment levels, using ANCOVA. The difference between the mean post-treatment volumes was not significant (P = 0.412).