Local and Systemic Inflammatory Responses to Experimentally Induced Gingivitis

Table 1

Clinical indices at baseline, peak of induction (day 21), and at resolution (day 35) of experimental gingivitis.

	Baseline	Day 21	Day 35	𝐹 statistic	𝑃 value
Plaque Index	—	2.14 (0.12)	0.30 (0.07)	𝑇(7) = 17.76*	<0.001
BOP (%)	12.01 (1.28)	37.19 (5.90)	7.64 (1.20)	(1.03, 7.21) = 28.79	0.001^†

Clinical indices are expressed as mean (standard error, SE).
^∗𝑡-statistic: Student’s 𝑡-test.
^†Greenhouse-Geisser correction for nonsphericity.