Fig. 6
From: Diagnosing peri-implant disease using the tongue as a 24/7 detector
Sensor performance in comparison to commercially available MMP diagnostics in saliva or sulcus fluid collected from patients with peri-implant disease (defined as mucositis or peri-implantitis; n = 19) and healthy control (n = 14). a Cleavage of the sensor in % after 5–10 and 60 min of incubation in saliva. b Active MMP-8 (aMMP-8) in sulcus fluid (chair-side test) and as measured from saliva (QuickZyme MMP-8 activity test). Box-and-whisker plots show the median (solid line), the box contains the middle 50% of values and the whiskers show the lower and upper 25% of the data, respectively. Outliers (not used for the analysis) are shown as red dots. Asterisks indicate statistical difference as assessed by a t-test (p < 0.05)
