Table 3.
Comparison of mean bleeding on probing (BOP %) from T0 to T2 in control, placebo, and experimental groups (mean ± SD).
| T 0 | T 1 | T 2 | P value† | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |||
| Group | Control | 15.41Aa | 8.07 | 15.65Aa | 6.86 | 15.56Aa | 7.25 | 0.923 |
| Placebo | 15.09Aa | 7.05 | 15.05Aa | 6.45 | 14.86Aa | 6.64 | 0.875 | |
| Experimental | 15.64Aa | 5.66 | 14.96Aa | 5.18 | 14.36Aa | 4.87 | 0.441 | |
| P value‡ | 0.964 | 0.919 | 0.806 | |||||
†Repeated measures test followed by Bonferroni's test was used; ‡one-way ANOVA test followed by Tukey's test was used. In each row, means with the same lower case superscript letter were not significantly different. In each column, means with the same capital superscript letter were not significantly different.