Table 3.

The periodontal markers, as measured at baseline after six months and the difference between the two values.

	ND D			OD E
	T0	T1	T1-T0	T0	T1
CAL a	4.47 ± 0.92	3.78 ± 0.94	−0.69 ± 0.59 **	4.96 ± 0.96	4.07 ± 0.94
PPD b	3.97 ± 0.82	3.03 ± 0.82	−0.94 ± 0.67 **	4.25 ± 0.89	3.00 ± 0.54
REC c	0.47 ± 0.51	0.75 ± 0.72	0.28 ± 0.58 *	0.68 ± 0.82	1.07 ± 0.90
FMPS d	65.28 ± 12.86	20.94 ± 4.29	−44.34 ± 14.03 **	66.61 ± 11.47	21.57 ± 4.62
FMBS e	70.88 ± 10.43	24.5 ± 2.86	−46.38 ± 11.65 **	67.93 ± 9.47	22.64 ± 3.09

^a = Clinical Attachment Level; ^b = Periodontal Probing Depth; ^c = Gingival Recession; ^d = Full-Mouth Plaque Score; ^e = Full-Mouth Bleeding Score; ^D = Non-optimized diet; ^E = Optimized diet * = Intra-class comparison by paired t-test (p-value < 0.05); ** = Intra-class comparison by paired t-test (p-value < 0.001).