Quantitative Analysis of Salivary TNF-α in Oral Lichen Planus Patients

Table 3

Difference in proportion between detected and nondetected TNF-α values in saliva of Group A and Group B.

Group	Detected	Nondetected	Two-sample binomial proportion test	value
A (controls)	14 (46.7%)	16 (53.3%)		0.02^*
B (OLP patients)	23 (76.7%)	7 (23.3%)

Significant at ; ^**highly significant at ; ^***very highly significant at .
TNF: tumor necrosis factor.
OLP: oral lichen planus.