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Fig. 6 | BMC Oral Health

Fig. 6

From: Parallel study about the effects of psychotherapy on patients with dental phobia determined by anxiety scores and saliva secretion and composition

Fig. 6

Boxplot graphics of the salivary secretion rate of the dental phobic patients before and after psychotherapeutic treatment and of the control patients. The difference in the secretion rate before and after psychotherapeutic treatment was not significant (p = 0.026). There was a significant difference in salivary secretion rate between the phobic group and the control group at T0 (p = 0.010).between the control and phobic groups. At T2 and T3 this difference was insignificant (T2 p = 0.21 and T3 p = 0.044)

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