Effects of Facial Threading on Female Skin Texture: A Prospective Trial with Physiological Parameters and Sense Assessment

Table 1

Changes in the skin roughness indices of the forehead, cheek, and corner of the mouth of the negative control group (NCG), experimental group (EG), and positive control groups 1 and 2 (PCG1 and PCG2).

	F		Post hoc tests
Forehead	12.058	<0.001	NCG	⟵⟶	EG	▼	<0.001
			NCG	⟵⟶	PCG1	▼	<0.001
			EG	⟵⟶	PCG2	△	<0.003
Cheek	42.868	<0.001	NCG	⟵⟶	EG	▼	<0.001
			NCG	⟵⟶	PCG1	▼	<0.001
			EG	⟵⟶	PCG2	△	<0.001
			PCG1	⟵⟶	PCG2	△	<0.001
Corner of the mouth	10.783	<0.001	NCG	⟵⟶	EG	▼	<0.009
			NCG	⟵⟶	PCG1	▼	<0.003
			EG	⟵⟶	PCG2	△	<0.001
			PCG1	⟵⟶	PCG2	△	<0.001

Decreases (▼) show relatively low skin roughness values, while increases (△) indicate high skin roughness values.