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. 2020 Feb 4;13(3):697. doi: 10.3390/ma13030697

Table 1.

Arithmetical mean roughness Ra and root mean square Rq values for all groups of new as well as cleaned samples. Wettability is expressed in the form of the angle between the tangent of the drop and the horizontal baseline of the solid surface.

Implants Group A Group B Group C Group D
New 1× Cleaned New 2× Cleaned New 3× Cleaned New 4× Cleaned
Ra (µm) 0.358 0.316 0.359 0.322 0.393 0.342 0.400 0.346
Rq (µm) 0.504 0.462 0.506 0.443 0.565 0.473 0.521 0.517
(°) 75.9 71.3 77.9 63.6 81.1 68.8 72.5 65.6