Objective: To evaluate the influence of immediate dentin sealing (IDS) and mechanical methods for removing thetemporary cement on bond strength between resin cements. Material Methods: Bovine incisorswere ground until exposure divided according to two factors: “dentin surface treatment”’ - cleaningwith manual dental excavator (DE), with Robinson bristle brush pumice paste (PP) or IDS applicatio...

The authors presented their data from atomic absorption tests, stating that the cements released less than 0.0007 ppm of arsenic after a week of soaking in weakly acidic solution. That is, the cements released 0.7 ppb from their worst sample. My first comment is on the atomic absorption technique for arsenic. According to the EPA method 7062 for detection of arsenic by atomic absorption using s...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to answer the question: For patients requiring apicoectomy (apicectomy/root-end resection) and retrograde (root-end) obturation (filling), which retrograde obturation (root-end filling) material(s) is/are the most effective, as determined by reduction in periapical radiolucency and elimination of signs and symptoms? MATERIALS AND METHODS A MEDLINE and a Cochr...

Eugenol is widely used in dentistry to relieve pain. We have recently demonstrated voltage-gated Na(+) and Ca(2+) channels as molecular targets for its analgesic effects, and hypothesized that eugenol acts on P2X(3), another pain receptor expressed in trigeminal ganglion (TG), and tested the effects of eugenol by whole-cell patch clamp and Ca(2+) imaging techniques. In the present study, we inv...

Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 (EHEC) has caused foodborne outbreaks worldwide and the bacterium forms antimicrobial-tolerant biofilms. We investigated the abilities of various plant essential oils and their components to inhibit biofilm formation by EHEC. Bay, clove, pimento berry oils and their major common constituent eugenol at 0.005% (v/v) were found to markedly inhibit EHEC bi...

Eugenol, a methoxyphenol component of clove oil, suppresses cyclooxygenase-2 expression, while eugenol dimers prevent nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) activation and inflammatory cytokine expression in lipopolysaccharide-stimulated macrophages. Our aim was to examine the in vivo anti-inflammatory effects of eugenol. BALB/c mice were divided into four groups. Mice received saline [0.05 ml intra...

Water solution of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in air, especially explosive materials, is required to detect VOCs by biosensors efficiently. We developed a collecting device like olfactory mechanism of animals: thin film of water including odorant binding proteins (OBPs), which play a major role in transport of hydrophobic odor molecules to olfactory receptors. Thin liquid film was generat...

In aquaculture, activities with anesthetic compounds are usually used in order to ensure the welfare of farmed fish, allowing handling out of water with decreased trauma by stress. Presently, there is no information about anesthetic action of eugenol in early life stages of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). The objective of this study was to evaluate different concentrations of eugenol for ...

The essential oil (EO) of clove bud dried fruits from Eugenia caryophyllus was obtained by a conventional hydrodistillation process in an excellent yield (11.7 %). Its chemical composition was analyzed by GC-MS, identifying eugenol as a main constituent (60.5%). Four eugenol-like molecules, γ-diisoeugenol, hydroxymethyleugenol, dihydroeugenol and 1,3-dioxanylphenol, were synthesized using eugen...