Analysis of total lesion size at baseline and percentage of change in size in response to treatment in each of the 3 groups and Kruskal-Wallis test results for inter-group comparison
Variables
Mean rank
Median
25th–75th interquartile range
p-value
Total lesion size at baseline in mm2
Group A (n = 15)
26.23
664
336.5–861
0.834
Group B (n = 15)
23.78
629
304.7–765.7
Group C (n = 14)
23.50
531.5
386.5–697.2
Percentage of size change in response to treatment
Group A (n = 15)
28.13a
16.8
14.7–50.3
< 0.001*
Group B (n = 15)
29.40a
31.6
17–37.06
Group C (n = 14)
9.07b
2.04
0.76–2.04
* Significance level at p-value < 0.05; different superscript letters in the same column designate a statistically significant difference in pairwise comparison
The authors would like to thank Dr. Noha Azab lecturer of the Department of Oral Medicine and Periodontology, at the Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University for her help in the clinical part and follow-up with the patients.
Author contributions
GN: Investigation, Data curation, Writing—original draft, Resources. FMZ: Conceptualization, Investigation, Data curation, Writing—review & editing, Supervision. AE and AF: Methodology, Writing—original draft. DG: Validation, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. BE: Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing, Methodology. All authors reviewed the results and approved the final version of the manuscript.
Conflicts of interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest to report regarding the present study.
Ethical approval
The study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, and the protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of Scientific Research, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University (approval No. 17 8 3). The aim of the study was explained to all subjects participating in this study and written informed consents were obtained before enrolment.
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