Efficacy of Curcumin Gel on Zinc, Magnesium, Copper, IL-1β, and TNF-α in Chronic Periodontitis Patients

Table 4

Intragroup comparison of . Deviation of serum proinflammatory cytokine IL-1β and TNF-α levels at baseline before therapy and 1 month after therapy in both A and B groups using paired -test.

Group	Index (pg/ml)	Time	Mean		Std. deviation	-test	df	value
Group A	IL-1β	Before	5.036	30	0.609	36.49	29	(HS)
		After	3.450	30	0.486
	TNF-α	Before	10.561	30	0.713	25.234	29	(HS)
		After	7.374	30	0.652
Group B	IL-1β	Before	10.561	30	0.606	7.114	29	(HS)
		After	4.534	30	0.529
	TNF-α	Before	10.519	30	0.717	22.213	29	(HS)
		After	8.483	30	0.453

was considered as significant.