Oral Health of Patients Treated with Acrylic Partial Dentures Using a Toothpaste Containing Bee Product

Table 1

API ranges: assessment for study and control groups.

Oral hygiene assessment (interproximal spaces)
	The assessment criteria	T1	T2	T3	Friedman’s ANOVA test ()/Kendall’s coefficient of concordance	Wilcoxon signed-rank test
Study group (A)	Optimal	11%	39%	56%	/0.95894	(1) : (2) = 0.000438; (2) : (3) = 0.000293; (1) : (3) = 0.000196
	Quite good	15%	28%	44%
	Average	53%	33%	0%
	Bad	21%	0%	0%
Control group (C)	Optimal	17%	21%	42%	/0.32012	(1) : (2) = 0.231060; (2) : (3) = 0.064186; (1) : (3) = 0.000327
	Quite good	11%	37%	37%
	Average	72%	42%	21%
	Bad	0%	0%	0%
Mann–Whitney “” test ()		0.784483	0.046554	0.001032	—	—

T1 (1): preliminary examination before hygiene procedure; T2 (2): examination after 7 days; T3 (3): 28 days after the initial examination.