Spectrophotometric Analysis of Dental Enamel Staining to Antiseptic and Dietary Agents: In Vitro Study

Table 1

Descriptive analysis regarding the difference in color (∆E) between the readings, R1, R2, and R3, among the 7 groups.

	ΔE (R1-R2)		ΔE (R2-R3)		ΔE (R1-R3)
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Chlorhexidine	3.05	1.02	1.59	0.72	3.03	0.98
Listerine	2.85	1.17	1.38	0.85	2.73	1.04
Sodium fluoride	2.59	1.24	1.18	0.68	2.23	0.98
Lemon with NaHCO3	2.09	1.09	2.38	0.58	1.97	0.94
Olive with laurel	2.05	1.23	2.98	0.55	1.73	0.88
Titanium dioxide	3.28	1.1	1.84	0.64	3.26	1.0
Distilled water	1.90	1.11	1.29	1.19	1.14	0.72