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Table 1 Patient characteristics, surgery time, total surgery time, visual analogue scale (VAS) scores, analgesic intake

From: Effect of submucosal application of tramadol on postoperative pain after third molar surgery

	Group S			Group T
	Mean	±	SD	Mean	±	SD	Test Value	p
Age (years)	23.93	±	2.828	24.80	±	2.524	−1.252	0.215^a
Height (cm)	168.13	±	8.033	168.23	±	8.705	−0.074	0.941^b
Weight (kg)	65.00	±	10.286	64.93	±	11.453	−0.603	0.547^b
ASA Grade	1.00	±	0.000	1.00	±	0.000
Total Surgery Time (min)	48.00	±	4.185	46.90	±	4.528	−1.141	0.254^b
Surgery Time (min)	26.27	±	3.591	25.37	±	3.306	1.01	0.317^a
VAS 0.5 h	0.00	±	0.000	0.00	±	0.000
VAS 1 h	6.37	±	0.850	2.23	±	0.898	−6.755	0.0001^b
VAS 2 h	3.63	±	0.615	1.87	±	0.819	−6.188	0.0001^b
VAS 4 h	3.07	±	0.691	4.30	±	1.264	−4.714	0.0001^b
VAS 6 h	3.33	±	1.446	1.77	±	1.382	−3.849	0.0001^b
VAS 12 h	0.63	±	0.765	1.17	±	0.791	−2.668	0.008^b
VAS 24 h	0.23	±	0.430	0.10	±	0.305	−1.374	0.169^b
VAS 48 h	0.07	±	0.254	0.00	±	0.000	−1.426	0.154^b
Initial Analgesic Intake	1.87	±	0.681	4.97	±	0.809	−6.779	0.0001^b
Total Analgesic Intake	3.60	±	0.814	1.67	±	0.547	−6.47	0.0001^b

^aStudent’s t-test (test value “t”)
^bMann-Whitney U test (test value “Z”)

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