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Antibacterial activity of self-adhesive resin cements against Streptococcus mutans at different time intervals

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Background and Objectives: Self-adhesive resin cements release fluoride and have cytotoxic and preventive monomers against the bacteria in their composition. They have acidic property before their complete setting too. The antibacterial activity of three different self-adhesive resin cements against Streptococcus mutans at different time intervals was investigated in this study.
Materials and Methods: The modified direct contact test was used to evaluate the antibacterial effect of Max-Cem, G-Cem and Bis-Cem on S. mutans after aging the samples in phosphate-buffered saline solution for one hour, 24 hours and 1 week. Data were analyzed using one-way ANOVA, repeated measurement ANOVA and Tukey HSD tests (P<0.05).
Results: The differences in the mean bacterial counts between all the study groups and between the study groups and the corresponding control groups were significant at 1-hour and 24-hour intervals (P<0.001). At 1-week, only the differences between Bis-Cem and G-Cem, between Max-Cem and Bis-Cem, and between Bis-Cem and the corresponding control group were significant (P<0.001). There were significant differences between G-Cem and Max-Cem at all the time intervals (P<0.001). In addition, with the use of Bis-Cem there were significant differences between 1-hour and 1-week (P=0.01) and 24-hour and 1-week (P<0.001).
Conclusion: All the cements exhibited antibacterial activity after 1 hour and 24 hours. However, after 1 week, only Bis-Cem retained its antibacterial activity.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.18502/ijm.v11i4.1469
Keywords
Anti-bacterial agents Resin cements Self-etch primer Dental caries Bacteria

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Ajami A-A, Rikhtegaran S, Bahari M, Hamadanchi S. Antibacterial activity of self-adhesive resin cements against Streptococcus mutans at different time intervals. Iran J Microbiol. 2019;11(4):313-319.