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Table 6 Mean and standard deviation of gloss of both materials with each storage medium before and after immersion

From: Effect of two artificial aging protocols on color and gloss of single-shade versus multi-shade resin composites

Intervention

Omnichroma

P value

Filtek Z350 XT

P value

Before immersion

After immersion

Before immersion

After immersion

Storage medium

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Saliva

31.96a

2.26

32.36a

2.26

P < 0.0001*

37.64a

1.4

38.29a

1.39

P < 0.0001*

Tea

31.21a

2.76

28.23b

2.82

P < 0.0001*

37.61a

3.29

33.82b

3.1

P < 0.0001*

Red wine

31.74a

1.66

28.25b

1.68

P < 0.0001*

36.5a

2.72

32.23b

2.7

P = 0.0035*

P value

P = 0.752

P < 0.001*

 

P = 0.541

P < 0.001*

 
  1. Means with different letters in the same column indicate statistically significance difference while means in the same row has no letters as they are two groups only. *Corresponds to statistically significant difference