Table 2.

Baseline characteristics of the study participants

Variable	Control	Triamcinolone	P
Age	56.46±9.36	58.53±8.89	0.384*
Sex
Male	17 (56.7)	18 (60)	0.793#
Female	13 (43.3)	12 (40)
Smoking
Yes	11 (36.7)	14 (46.7)	0.601#
Status of denture
Yes	21 (70)	19 (63.3)	0.785#

Values are frequency (%) for categorical and mean±SD for quantitative variables. *Resulted from independent t-test; ^#Resulted from Chi-square test. SD=Standard deviation