The Effect of Smoking on Salivary Calcium Levels, Calcium Intake, and Bleeding on Probing in Female

Table 4

Correlation of salivary calcium levels with total calcium intake and BOP.

The correlation of salivary calcium level with	Female smokers (n = 26)		Control (n = 37)
	r	value	r	value
BOP (%)	0.481	0.020	−0.040	0.823
Calcium intake (mmol/L)	−0.058	0.793	−0.267	0.126

Statistically significant ( value < 0.05) according to the partial correlation (2-tailed).