Table 1.
Treatments | ||||||
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Level | T0 | T1 | T2 | T3 | T4 | p * |
(n = 20) | (n = 5) | (n = 6) | (n = 4) | (n = 5) | ||
A Gingival | 19.4 a ± 17.2 | 49.1 b ± 27.4 | 49.8 b ± 27.8 | 27.4 a,b ± 33.7 | 24.7 a,b ± 17.0 | 0.006 |
B | 29.5 ± 27.6 | 53.4 ± 24.5 | 58.0 ± 28.6 | 39.0 ± 37.3 | 32.4 ± 14.6 | 0.088 |
C | 38.2 ± 28.9 | 67.9 ± 21.5 | 66.5 ± 27.5 | 50.3 ± 33.8 | 32.6 ± 16.5 | 0.077 |
D | 45.4 a ± 29.1 | 77.5 a ± 15.5 | 72.0 a ± 22.8 | 58.3 a,b ± 29.4 | 33.1 b ± 13.9 | 0.039 |
E Apical | 52.3 ± 27.7 | 82.8 ± 11.0 | 75.8 ± 19.4 | 69.3 ± 26.8 | 38.5 ± 19.0 | 0.06 |
Data expressed as mean ± sd. *: By Repeated Measures of ANOVA. Data were arcsine square root transformed to improve normality. Means with different letters are significantly different (Student–Newman–Keuls test).