Intracanal placement of calcium hydroxide: a comparison of specially designed paste carrier technique with other techniques

Table 2 **ANOVA and Bonferroni post hoc test* comparing mean radiodensity values according to technique and depth**

Mean radio-density	Technique			p-values*
At depth of	1 (Syringe Spreader)	2 (Syringe Lentulo Spiral)	3 (Specially Designed Paste Carrier)	1 cf 2	1 cf 3	2 cf 3
1 mm	6.9 (3.2-10.5)	13.9 (6.6-21.1)	28.8 (22.6-35.0)	0.236	0.001	0.001
3 mm	14.1 (7.1-21.2)	23.9 (17.6-30.2)	35.2 (28.9-41.6)	0.086	0.001	0.037
5 mm	13.5 (7.1-19.8)	21.9 (12.7-31.1)	36.8 (31.3-42.2)	0.250	0.001	0.009
7 mm	22.4 (16.7-30.2)	23.5 (15.5-31.4)	34.5 (28.5-40.6)	1.000	0.047	0.079
Overall density	14.2 (9.9-18.6)	20.8 (16.0-25.6)	33.83 (30.2-37.5)	0.077	0.001	0.001

Mean Radiodensity in Vixwin Gray Section Values and 95% Confidence intervals in brackets.
*refers to the p-value obtained from the post hoc test as indicated in the p-value heading with the same superscript.

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