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Table 3.

Absorbance of oral bacterial suspensions according to treatment solution.

Groups	Treatment solutions	N	Absorbance	F	p
Experimental	5% CEON	35	0.29 ± 0.16^a	346.725	< 0.001
Positive control	0.12% CHX	35	0.36 ± 0.10^a
Negative control	0.5% CB	35	1.14 ± 0.17^b

CEON cinnamon essential oil nanoemulsion, CHX chlorhexidine gluconate, CB cocamidopropyl betaine.

p value obtained from one-way analysis of variance. All values are expressed as means ± standard deviations.

^a,^bDifferent letters indicate significance by Scheffe’s multiple comparison test at α = 0.05.