Antibacterial Efficacy of Cold Atmospheric Plasma, Photodynamic Therapy with Two Photosensitizers, and Diode Laser on Primary Mandibular Second Molar Root Canals Infected with Enterococcus faecalis: An In Vitro Study

Table 3

Percentage of reduction in colony count in each group after the intervention compared with baseline (n = 10).

Group	Mean	Std. deviation	Std. error	95% Confidence interval for mean		Minimum	Maximum
				Lower bound	Upper bound
Laser + curcumin	90.32	4.93	1.56	86.78	93.85	81.56	97.73
Laser + methylene blue	89.40	5.77	1.82	85.28	93.53	76.27	95.06
Diode laser	80.50	5.74	1.81	76.39	84.61	73.30	89.86
CAP	99.04	0.38	0.12	98.77	99.32	98.54	99.58
NaOCl	99.45	0.25	0.08	99.27	99.64	99.04	99.76
Total	91.74	8.18	1.15	89.42	94.07	73.30	99.76