Clinical Comparison of MEBO and Hyaluronic Acid Gel in the Management of Pain after Free Gingival Graft Harvesting: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Table 1

Median and range values for intergroup comparison of postoperative pain measured by the VAS score daily from day 1 to day 7 in the three groups.

VAS pain score		Median	Min	Max	value
Day 1	Group I	3	0.00	5.00	0.119 ns
	Group II	3	0.00	4.00
	Group III	5	0.00	10.00
Day 2	Group I	0^b	0.00	3.00	0.006
	Group II	2.5^a	0.00	5.00
	Group III	4.5^a	0.00	6.00
Day 3	Group I	0^c	0.00	1.00	0.008
	Group II	0.5^b	0.00	4.00
	Group III	4.5^a	0.00	7.00
Day 4	Group I	0	0.00	4.00	0.091 ns
	Group II	0	0.00	5.00
	Group III	2	0.00	5.00
Day 5	Group I	0	0.00	3.00	0.485 ns
	Group II	0	0.00	4.00
	Group III	0	0.00	6.00
Day 6	Group I	0	0.00	1.00	0.573 ns
	Group II	0	0.00	0.00
	Group III	0	0.00	2.00
Day 7	Group I	0	0.00	0.00	1 ns
	Group II	0	0.00	0.00
	Group III	0	0.00	0.00

Significance level: ; significant; ns = nonsignificant.