Table 1.
Descriptive statistics of demineralization, remineralization, and demineralization to remineralization using DIAGNOdent® values
| Mineralization | Product used | n | Mean | SD | SE | 95% CI for mean |
Minimum | Maximum | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower bound | Upper bound | ||||||||
| Baseline | CPP-ACPF NovaMin | 86 | 4.13 | 1.381 | 0.149 | 3.30 | 5.03 | 3 | 7 |
| Demineralization | CPP-ACPF | 43 | 13.09 | 3.138 | 0.479 | 12.13 | 14.06 | 9 | 22 |
| NovaMin | 43 | 12.93 | 2.806 | 0.428 | 12.07 | 13.79 | 10 | 22 | |
| Remineralization | CPP-ACPF | 43 | 6.02 | 0.938 | 0.143 | 5.73 | 6.31 | 4 | 8 |
| NovaMin | 43 | 6.56 | 1.098 | 0.167 | 6.22 | 6.90 | 4 | 8 | |
| Demineralization-remineralization | CPP-ACPF | 43 | 7.02 | 3.028 | 0.462 | 6.09 | 7.96 | 3 | 16 |
| NovaMin | 43 | 6.42 | 2.217 | 0.338 | 5.74 | 7.10 | 3 | 14 | |
CPP: Casein phosphopeptide; ACPF: Amorphous calcium phosphate fluoride; SD: Standard deviation; SE: Standard error; CI: Confidence interval