Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Table 2 Comparison of ISQ between the 3 groups in five different times

From: Does the systemic administration of l-arginine affect dental implant stability in nicotine consumer dogs?

ISQ		Group			p value
ISQ		a: nicotine	b: nicotine+l-arg	c: no nicotine no l-arg	Total	a, b	a, c	b, c
Baseline		78.0 ± 2.6	73.5 ± 2.3	72.2 ± 3.1	0.001	0.009	0.001	0.609
Week 1		74.8 ± 4.5	67.4 ± 8.3	65.4 ± 4.1	0.035	0.077	0.048	0.970
Week 2		68.0 ± 7.3	61.6 ± 6.7	68.5 ± 4.17	0.072	–	–	–
Week 3		77.3 ± 4.5	63.5 ± 4.9	63.5 ± 9.0	0.001	0.003	0.003	> 0.999
Week 4		80.0 ± 3.7	68.1 ± 9.5	75.6 ± 6.9	0.011	0.009	0.452	0.114
p value	Linear	0.158	0.213	0.616
p value	Quadratic	< 0.001	0.016	< 0.001

Data were presented as mean ± SD; column p value, extract from one-way ANOVA and Tukey post hoc; row p value, extract from repeated measure ANOVA

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