Is It Possible to Achieve Favorable Accelerated Dental Changes with No Periodontal Complications When Retracting Upper Anterior Teeth Assisted by Flapless Corticotomy Compared to Traditional Corticotomy? A Two-Arm Randomized Controlled Trial

Table 5

Descriptive statistics of the periodontal indices as well as the values of significance tests.

Time	FCG			TCG			value^†
	Mean	SD	Median	Mean	SD	Median
Gingival index
T0	0.22	0.25	0.12	0.22	0.24	0.16	0.914
T1	0.25	0.22	0.21	0.29	0.13	0.26	0.224
T2	0.28	0.18	0.26	0.44	0.17	0.43	0.003
Papillary bleeding index
T0	0.14	0.21	0.04	0.14	0.24	0.05	0.935
T1	0.17	0.23	0.08	0.23	0.17	0.21	0.083
T2	0.20	0.19	0.14	0.44	0.28	0.35	0.001
Plaque index
T0	0.31	0.23	0.32	0.30	0.23	0.28	1.000
T1	0.33	0.28	0.33	0.37	0.18	0.30	0.490
T2	0.38	0.25	0.43	0.59	0.22	0.60	0.002