Open AccessEffect of organic versus inorganic fluoride on enamel microhardness: An in vitro study
Author(s) -
Smita R. Priyadarshini,
Ramya Raghu,
Ashish Shetty,
PM Gautham,
Satyanarayana Reddy,
Raghu Srinivasan
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 - 10.4103/0972-0707.111314
Subject(s) - fluoride , enamel paint , materials science , indentation hardness , dentistry , nuclear chemistry , chemical engineering , metallurgy , chemistry , medicine , inorganic chemistry , composite material , microstructure , engineering
Dental caries is one of the most prevalent infectious diseases affecting the human dentition. Fluorides are effective anti-carious agents and have been widely used for caries prevention in the form of systemic and topical fluorides. Neutral sodium fluoride (NaF) is commonly used as a topical fluoride agent. A special category of topical fluorides are organic fluorides in the form of amine fluorides (AmF). Researchers have reported that AmF is superior to inorganic fluorides in improving the caries resistance of enamel due to the significant anti-enzyme effect of the organic fragment.