Results
bleeding, postoperative pain
RECURRENCE, BLEEDING, RECURRENCE
The study was conducted on 20 patients that were randomly and equally allocated to two groups. Males and females were equally represented in the laser-treated group; however, in the control group, there were four (40%) males and six (60%) females, with no statistically significant difference between the two groups (Landry’s healing quality indexVery poor1Tissue colour: ≥ 50% of gingiva redResponse to palpation: bleedingGranulation tissue: presentIncision margin: is not epithelialized, with loss of epithelium beyond the lesion siteSuppuration: presentPoor2Tissue colour: ≥ 50% of gingiva redResponse to palpation: bleedingGranulation tissue: presentIncision margin: is not epithelialized, with connective tissue exposedGood3Tissue colour: ≥ 25% and < 50% of gingiva redResponse to palpation: no bleedingGranulation tissue: noneIncision margin: shows no connective tissue exposedVery good4Tissue colour: < 25% of gingiva redResponse to palpation: no bleedingGranulation tissue: noneIncision margin: no connective tissue exposedExcellent5Tissue colour: all tissues pinkResponse to palpation: no bleedingGranulation tissue: noneIncision margin: no connective tissue exposedSummary of statistics of demographic data (sex and age)*; significant (The majority (80%) of the participants in the test laser-treated group and all the participants in the control sclerotherapy-treated group had mild bleeding; however, there was no significant difference in the proportions of participants with mild bleeding between the two groups (A representative graph showing a comparison between the two groups. On the second and seventh days, the participants in the laser-treated group had significantly more intense postoperative pain than those in the sclerotherapy-treated group (Regarding the healing quality index, the sclerotherapy-treated group had higher values at different intervals than the laser-treated group, but the differences were not statistically significant (Mean and Standard deviation (SD) values for healing index for different groupsDifferent superscript letters indicate a statistically significant difference within the same vertical column *; significant (Recurrence occurred in two participants in the laser-treated group after three months and in one participant after 6 months while no participant experienced recurrence in the sclerotherapy-treated group in all intervals, with the difference between the two groups being not statistically significant difference (