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

Table 4

Three-dimensional bone microstructure analysis in bone marrow area.

	Group	Type of pilot-drilling		Significance
		Self-drilling	Self-tapping
		(Mean ± SD)	(Mean ± SD)
Bone volume/tissue volume (%)	DM	6.05 ± 2.81	4.91 ± 0.96	NS
	Control	8.24 ± 2.23	7.90 ± 3.04
Trabecular thickness (mm)	DM	0.09 ± 0.01	0.08 ± 0.00	NS
	Control	0.10 ± 0.00	0.09 ± 0.02
Trabecular number (1/mm)	DM	0.66 ± 0.22	0.61 ± 0.10	NS
	Control	0.83 ± 0.22	0.84 ± 0.30
Trabecular separation (mm)	DM	0.91 ± 0.08	0.86 ± 0.04	NS
	Control	0.80 ± 0.05	0.81 ± 0.05

Mann-Whitney test was used.