Anti-Early Stage of Bacterial Recolonization Effect of Curcuma longa Extract as Photodynamic Adjunctive Treatment

Table 2

Mean clinical data from baseline through 6 weeks of follow-up of the study groups.

Clinical parameters	Conventional treatment					PDT
	Baseline	After treatment (weeks)				Baseline	After treatment (weeks)
		1	2	4	6		1	2	4	6
Pocket depth (mm)	4.38 ± 0.61	3.88 ± 0.41	3.96 ± 0.52	4.08 ± 0.55	4.08 ± 0.55	4.46 ± 0.68	4.00 ± 0.63	4.00 ± 0.79	4.17 ± 0.56	4.29 ± 0.57
Clinical attachment loss (mm)	4.00 ± 1.08	3.46 ± 1.24	3.58 ± 1.08	3.75 ± 1.09	3.83 ± 0.98	4.38 ± 1.42	3.75 ± 1.53	3.92 ± 1.48	4.04 ± 1.42	4.17 ± 1.38
Plaque index	1.04 ± 0.33	0.79 ± 0.16	0.79 ± 0.20	0.92 ± 0.29	0.96 ± 0.36	1.04 ± 0.28	0.85 ± 0.18	0.75 ± 0.22	0.81 ± 0.21	0.88 ± 0.29
Bleeding on probing (%)	85.42 ± 20.58	56.25 ± 10.54	58.33 ± 16.87	58.33 ± 12.08	68.75 ± 16.87	85.42 ± 20.83	54.17 ± 15.02	58.33 ± 11.02	60.42 ± 12.50	66.67 ± 13.18

Repeated ANOVA was used to compare within-group differences (). All data are presented in mean ± SD.