Effect of Air-Polishing on Titanium Surfaces, Biofilm Removal, and Biocompatibility: A Pilot Study

Table 4

Biocompatibility of air-polished discs. “Live” refers to the proportion of disc area covered by live cells, and “dead” refers to the proportion of disc area covered by dead cells. “Total” refers to the proportion of disc area covered by live and dead cells. The data are shown as means ± standard deviations ( for treatment compared to no treatment) ().

	No treatment	Treatment
Disc coverage by live cells (%)	41.04 ± 19.54	20.36 ± 9.81
Disc coverage by dead cells (%)	0.15 ± 0.16	0.07 ± 0.13
Total disc coverage (%)	41.19 ± 9.58	20.44 ± 9.84
Cell viability (% live cells)	99.60	99.60