Primary Stability of Self-Drilling and Self-Tapping Mini-Implant in Tibia of Diabetes-Induced Rabbits

Table 3

Three-dimensional bone microstructure analysis in cortical bone area.

	Group	Type of pilot drilling		Significance
		Self-drilling	Self-tapping
		(Mean ± SD)	(Mean ± SD)
Bone volume/tissue volume (%)	DM	95.54 ± 5.18	93.96 ± 5.93	NS
	Control	95.87 ± 4.24	98.00 ± 2.17
Trabecular thickness (mm)	DM	0.16 ± 0.07	0.19 ± 0.10	NS
	Control	0.24 ± 0.10	0.28 ± 0.14
Trabecular number (1/mm)	DM	6.91 ± 2.78	5.95 ± 2.81	NS
	Control	4.46 ± 1.39	4.32 ± 2.17
Trabecular separation (mm)	DM	0.04 ± 0.01	0.04 ± 0.01	NS
	Control	0.04 ± 0.01	0.03 ± 0.01

Mann-Whitney test was used.