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Table III

Baseline oral characteristics.

		n	%
Oral	PI0 − PI1	166	70
hygiene	PI2 − PI3 Not applicable (i.e., edentulous)	72 13	30
Periodontal disease		60	23.9
Removable denture		72	28.7
	Maxillary (mx)	27	10.8
	Mandibular (md)	4	1.6
	Mx and md	26	10.4
	Bimaxillary	15	6.0
	Not suitable	12	16.7^*
Implants		13	5.2
	Mean implant number Standard deviation	3.8 3.0
Pre-denosumab extractions		95	37.8
Pre-denosumab extractions	Mean number of extracted teeth Standard deviation	2.7 2.9
	Min-Max	1 − 18

Bimaxillary: these are totally edentulous patients with complete bimaxillary removable prostheses.

*Not suitable dentures: 16.7% of the 72 patients with removable dentures.

PI: Silness and Löe plaque index. PI = 0, no plaque; PI = 1, film of plaque visible in situ after application of disclosing solution or by probing the tooth surface; P = 2, moderate accumulation of soft matter; P = 3, abundant soft matter.

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