INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH, cilt.13, sa.2, ss.70-73, 2023 (Hakemli Dergi)
The aim of this study was to evaluation of antimicrobial efcacy of gaseous ozone, herbal alternatives and ozone against
E.faecalis biolm in root canal disinfection. Extracted mandibular premolar teeth (n=119) were infected with E.faecalis to
form a biolm. At the end of the 3rd and 6th weeks, all groups were treated with the disinfecting agents (morinda citrifolia, triphala, gaseous ozone,
morinda citrifolia + gaseous ozone, triphala + gaseous ozone, sodium hypochlorite and saline) and were analyzed using colony forming unit
(CFU) counting and confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) analysis, Data was analyzed Student's t test, One-Way ANOVA and post hoc
Tukey HSD test. All the disinfecting agents killed signicantly more bacteria than the saline. Sodium hypochlorite showed maximum
antibacterial activity against both the 3-week-old and 6-week-old biolm. The use of gaseous ozone alone and combined with herbal agents be
alternative as a root canal irrigant.