A clinical next-generation sequencing study on the microbial profiles of asymptomatic apical periodontitis in type 2 diabetic and systemically healthy individuals following adjuvant antimicrobial photodynamic therapy.

Clin Oral Investig · 2026 · PMC12886395 · PMID 41661350

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.076so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Although the Shannon diversity index also showed a decreasing trend after treatment, this difference did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.076) (Fig. 3 C, D).

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