Table 2.

Comparison of healing index score (Landry et al., 1985) in Group 1 and Group 2

HI	Group 1	Group 2	P value
Baseline	1.00±0.000	1.00±0.000	1.000 (NS)
Day 3	3.43±0.514	2.50±0.519	0.000 (S)*
Day 7	4.57±0.514	4.07±0.730	0.061 (NS)
Day 15	5.00±0.000	4.79±0.426	0.072 (NS)

*Statistical significance at P value < 0.05. S – Significant; NS – Not significant; HI – Healing index