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. 2020 Nov 12;13(22):5109. doi: 10.3390/ma13225109

Table 3.

The amount of the dental spray during ultrasonic scaling with a high volume evacuator or saliva ejector, measured in 3 areas and the analysis of variance and post-hoc test (multiple comparisons using the Tukey test).

Place of Measurement Exhaustion Test Result
Saliva Ejector High Volume Evacuator
Manikin 34.2 ± 2.8 29.7 ± 1.4 0.005
Operator 32.5 ± 2.3 28.4 ± 1.2 0.003
Assistant 31.0 ± 1.6 29.6 ± 0.6 0.079
ANOVA p 0.072 0.139