Period | Group | Mean | SD | t-value | p-value | ||||||
Baseline | Sealant | 1.50 | 0.20 | 0.37 | 0.72 NS | ||||||
Varnish pretreated | 1.54 | 0.24 | |||||||||
Postsealant | Sealant | 0.85 | 0.05 | 1.25 | 0.22 NS | ||||||
Varnish pretreated | 0.83 | 0.04 | |||||||||
3rd month | Sealant | 0.94 | 0.16 | 1.37 | 0.18 NS | ||||||
Varnish pretreated | 0.87 | 0.06 | |||||||||
6th month | Sealant | 1.02 | 0.23 | 1.53 | 0.14 NS | ||||||
Varnish pretreated | 0.92 | 0.07 |
NS: Nonsignificant; SD: Standard deviation