Table 6.
Comparison of living and dead cells per mm² on the different materials.
| Time | BG | TCP | 5050 | 7030 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cells/mm² | Cells/mm² | Cells/mm² | Cells/mm² | |||||
| Alive | Dead | Alive | Dead | Alive | Dead | Alive | Dead | |
| 3 days | ||||||||
| Outer surface | 80 ± 9 | 7 ± 2 | 68 ± 7 | 5 ± 1 | 79 ± 8 | 6 ± 1 | 70 ± 5 | 5 ± 2 |
| Inner surface | 208 ± 44 | 6 ± 4 | 321 ± 42 | 6 ± 3 | 119 ± 42 | 3 ± 1 | 72 ± 13 | 8 ± 4 |
| 7 days | ||||||||
| Outer surface | 634 ± 48 | 62 ± 14 | 126 ± 3 | 18 ± 3 | 480 ± 17 | 52 ± 22 | 576 ± 119 | 74 ± 4 |
| Inner surface | 197 ± 15 | 32 ± 23 | 191 ± 14 | 4 ± 1 | 164 ± 17 | 16 ± 11 | 178 ± 2 | 24 ± 3 |
| 10 days | ||||||||
| Outer surface | 670 ± 167 | 0 | 636 ± 63 | 8 | 516 ± 28 | 10 ± 3 | 534 ± 31 | 10 ± 3 |
| Inner surface | 277 ± 32 | 0 | 278 ± 11 | 0 | 289 ± 72 | 0 | 251 ± 20 | 0 |