Randomized Clinical Trial of a Topical Botanical Patch for the Adjunctive Management of Periodontitis.

Oral Health Prev Dent · 2022 · PMC11640858 · PMID 35723714

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borderline significantp = 0.07so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

While patients treated with adjunctive botanical patches exhibited a mean PD reduction of 0.99 mm at 1 month, control patients exhibited a PD reduction of 0.39 mm (borderline significant, p = 0.07).

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.08so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

This clinical trend continued into the third month but did not reach statistical significance (p = 0.08).

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