Table V.
Macroscopic evaluation scoring.
| International cartilage repair society score mean ± standard deviation | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Follow-up Period | CTL group | PRP group | PRP + SC group | Kruskal-Wallis P-value | Kruskall Wallis post-hoc multiple comparison with Bonferroni's correction P-value |
| 6 weeks | 6.67±3.01 | 3.60±2.37 | 8.86±1.35 | 0.0040a | CTL × PRP, P=0.308 |
| CTL × PRP+SC, P=0.516 | |||||
| aPRP × PRP+SC, P=0.003 | |||||
| 12 weeks | 5.50±2.22 | 7.22±1.92 | 9.88±0.99 | 0.0007a | CTL × PRP, P=0.549 |
| aCTL × PRP+SC, P=0.001 | |||||
| aPRP × PRP+SC, P=0.049 | |||||
a
P<0.05. CTL, control group without treatment; PRP, group treated with platelet-rich plasma; PRP + SC, group treated with platelet-rich plasma plus human dental pulp stem cells.