The caries-preventive benefits of fluoride are generally accepted by dental researchers and practicing professionals worldwide. The benefits of fluoride toothpastes and mouthrinses have been supported by several high-quality systematic reviews. The formulation of a fluoride toothpaste and biological (salivary flow rate) and behavioral factors (brushing frequency, brushing time, post-brushing ri...

The incorporation of chemical agents with anti-plaque or antimicrobial activity into dental products has been proposed as a potential prophylactic method reducing plaque-mediated disease. aim this study was to determine the efficacy different brands toothpaste and mouthwash on Staphylococcus aureus isolated from mouth healthy Pharmacy students Igbinedion University Okada. Samples 40 {20 male 20...

Background: Biofilm plays an important role in the etiology of caries, and can be removed through chemical approach using mouthwash, which has some advantages over mechanical one. Nowadays, there are a lot mouthwashes with many active ingredients that have been developed. Aim: To review mouthwashes’ efficacy preventing dental caries.Discussion: As recent studies showed Streptococcus mutans can’...

The aim of this study was to assess the effect of toothbrushing with toothpastes having different relative dentine abrasivity (RDA) and toothbrushes having different bristles hardness on different composite resins, compomers and traditional glassionomer cements by surface roughness evaluation. All the samples were evaluated regarding the surface roughness using roughness checker (Taylor Hobson-...

The chemical inhibitors act according to the following objectives: to disrupt the metabolism of the bacterial plaque and biochemical mechanisms of it, or to act upon the enamel structure in order to make it more resistant to the action of the bacterial plaque. In terms of the antibacterial activity, we compared toothpastes with different antiplaque chemical inhibitors: Triclosan / Copolymer (TC...