Humic Acid Enhances Wound Healing in the Rat Palate

Table 2

Analyses of wound areas during 21 days of observation.

	1st week of treatment	2nd week of treatment	3rd week of treatment
Control (mean ± sem)	8.22	5.131	2.194
Chlorhexidine gluconate (mean ± sem)	5.276	4.02	1.215
Humic acid (mean ± sem)	5.193	3.97	0.7788
F-value	400.6	70.85	201.9
R^2-value	0.9745	0.8709	0.9506
95 CI between control and humic acid	2.637 - 3.251	0.8832 - 1.439	1.233 - 1.597
95 CI between control and chlorhexidine gluconate	2.720 - 3.335	0.8332 - 1.389	0.7970 - 1.161
95 CI between chlorhexidine gluconate and humic acid	-0.2234 - 0.3909	-0.2280 - 0.3280	0.2545 - 0.6180

sem = standard error of mean and CI = confidence interval.