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

Table 3

Median and interquartile range of bacterial unit from baseline through 6 weeks of follow-up of the study groups.

		Baseline	After treatment (weeks)
			1	2	4	6
F. nucleatum	Conventional treatment	420.94 (181–955)	102.75 (54–314)	513.46 (197–895)	394.63 (191–953)	655.56 (346–1568)
	PDT	561.54 (215–1109)	243.65 (44–616)	254.22 (70–1053)	238.14 (90–832)	433.10 (91–631)
P. intermedia	Conventional treatment	44.10 (28.9–302)	14.03 (0.2–35)	20.40 (0.3–87)	63.55 (0.2–228)	104.73 (0.3–355)
	PDT	141.17 (30.85–378)	13.34 (0.1–52)	28.21 (0.1–436)	13.08 (0.1–67)	15.79 (0.2–252)

All data are presented in median (quartile 1–quartile 3).