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Table 2.

Intragroup comparison of all variables at each time intervals in all groups

	Variables	T₁ mean ± SD	T₃ mean ± SD	T₂ mean ± SD	p value^*	T₁ vs T₂^**	T₁ vs T₃^**	T₂ vs T₃^**
H	DI-S	1.73 ± 0.48	0.80 ± 0.37	0.91 ± 0.31	<0.001	0.001	0.001
	CI-S	0.20 ± 0.31	0.09 ± 0.17	0.11 ± 0.18	0.04	0.01
	OHI-S	1.93 ± 0.70	0.89 ± 0.43	1.02 ± 0.36	0.001	0.001	0.001
	S. mutans	19.20 ± 30.5	4.87 ± 3.5	2.87 ± 1.56	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.01
OW	DI-S	1.86 ± 0.39	0.73 ± 0.40	0.86 ± 0.28	<0.001	0.001	0.001
	CI-S	0.11 ± 0.19	0.10 ± 0.17	0.24 ± 0.24	0.002		0.02	0.005
	OHI-S	1.97 ± 0.43	0.83 ± 0.44	1.11 ± 0.43	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.031
	S. mutans	12.76 ± 9.7	6.14 ± 4.04	2.23 ± 0.76	<0.001	0.003	<0.001	<0.001
W	DI-S	1.74 ± 0.62	1.25 ± 0.39	1.27 ± 0.39	<0.001	0.001	0.001
	CI-S	0.14 ± 0.21	0.29 ± 0.33	0.50 ± 0.32	0.005		0.001	0.001
	OHI-S	1.87 ± 0.76	1.54 ± 0.61	1.77 ± 0.63	0.08
	S. mutans	15.41 ± 11.89	17.37 ± 17.25	15.33 ± 3.0	0.42
CHX	DI-S	1.69 ± 0.39	0.76 ± 0.37	0.87 ± 0.23	<0.001	0.001	0.001
	CI-S	0.095 ± 0.50	0.095 ± 0.49	0.25 ± 0.39	<0.001		0.004	0.001
	OHI-S	1.80 ± 0.50	0.83 ± 0.49	1.125 ± 0.39	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.003
	S. mutans	14.13 ± 12.8	3.043 ± 1.9	1.86 ± 1.74	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.01

^*Friedman test; ^**post hoc Wilcoxon signed rank test