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

Table 4

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

Group	Detected	Nondetected	Two-sample binomial proportion test	value
A (controls)	8 (26.7%)	22 (73.3%)		0.001^***
B (OLP patients)	25 (83.3%)	5 (16.7%)

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