Evaluation of Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging for the Assessment of Oral Mucosal Blood Flow following Periodontal Plastic Surgery: An Exploratory Study

Figure 5

The effect of time, graft, and gender on wound fluid (WF) production. The two upper graphs (a and b) show the interaction between graft and gender in wound fluid (WF) production during the whole period, expressed in Periotron Scores (PS). The lower plot (c) shows the changes of WF production over time when the graft data were grouped. Time points include preoperative data (bsl.) and postoperative days (1 to 180). Data are presented as means ± SE. Statistically significant differences of the postoperative values versus bsl. are indicated by × in females and by + in males. The differences between the genders are indicated by (, adjusted by the Benjamini and Hochberg method).

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