Research Article

Effect of Cold Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Coupled with Resin-Containing and Xylitol-Containing Fluoride Varnishes on Enamel Erosion

Table 2

Measures of central dispersion for change in microhardness of the groups.

GroupMean ± SDMaximumMinimum

Control0.18 ± 0.91a2.55−0.59
E38.89 ± 5.88c46.0329.93
P33.12 ± 8.02c42.7024.04
PRF22.53 ± 10.19b39.636.79
RF25.53 ± 6.30b36.0811.40
F25.24 ± 10.31b37.508.90
PF23.45 ± 5.98b31.5514.30

SD: Standard deviation, E: Erosion, P: CAP, PRF: CAP + Enamelast, RF: Enamelast, F: FluoroDose, PF: CAP + FluoroDose. Different lowercase letters indicate significant differences (). The same lowercase letters indicate lack of statistically significant difference between the two subgroups ().