Open AccessIn vitro evaluation of five different herbal extracts as an antimicrobial endodontic irrigant using real time quantitative polymerase chain reaction
Author(s) -
Thilla Sekar Vinothkumar,
Mohamed I Rubin,
Lakshmi Balaji,
Deivanayagam Kandaswamy
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of conservative dentistry/journal of conservative dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 0974-5203
pISSN - 0972-0707
DOI - 10.4103/0972-0707.108208
Subject(s) - terminalia chebula , enterococcus faecalis , sodium hypochlorite , antimicrobial , traditional medicine , candida albicans , eugenol , chemistry , medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , bacteria , staphylococcus aureus , organic chemistry , genetics
Sodium hypochlorite is the most commonly used irrigant but it has disadvantage like high cytotoxicity. So there is a need to find an alternative to 5.25% Sodium hypochlorite against microorganism Enterococcus faecalis and Candida albicans. Literature has shown that these 5 extracts namely Terminalia chebula, Myristica frangrans, Aloe barbadensis, Curcuma longa and Azadaricta indica has good properties which can be used as a potential endodontic irrigant.