3.1. Group Characteristics
bleeding
BLEEDING, PLAQUE
Forty-five patients were initially screened. Ten were not eligible, as three had a bony defect in the alveolar buccal wall revealed after dental extraction; three participants were lost to follow-up after the initial surgery, resulting in a final study sample of 29 participants who completed the study (11 men and 18 women). It was randomly distributed into two groups, 15 in the control group and 14 in the study group, as detailed in Before dental extraction, it was confirmed that the individual had proper oral hygiene by assessing entire mouth plaque and bleeding on probing scores that were less than 10% of the sites. The demographic distribution of the data between the groups showed statistically insignificant differences, as shown in 