Table 1.

Comparison of saliva flow (unstimulated and stimulated) in the two study groups (amount of flow in 5 minutes)

	Statistic	Unstimulated		Stimulated
		Group I	Group II	Group I	Group II
	Mean	0.0936	0.0440	0.1542	0.0778
	SD#	0.0411	0.0373	0.0624	0.0505
	Minimum	0	0	0	0
	Maximum	0.22	0.22	0.30	0.24
	"t" ##	6.319		6.319
	"p"###	<0.001		<0.001

#: Standard deviation          ##: t value (Student’s t-test)      ###: p value (Student’s ‘t’ test)