Table 3 Differences between the mean values of the intraoral thermal images’ temperatures of the three diagnostic groups
From: Thermography as a non-ionizing quantitative tool for diagnosing periapical inflammatory lesions
Investigators’ diagnosis | Mean difference | SE | P value | 95% confidence interval | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lower bound | Upper bound | |||||
AA | CA | 2.2 | 0.1 | < 0.001 | 1.9 | 2.6 |
AA | AAP | 1.2 | 0.1 | < 0.001 | 0.8 | 1.5 |
AAP | CA | 1.0 | 0.1 | < 0.001 | 0.7 | 1.4 |