PURPOSE Antiseptic mouth rinses are widely recommended and marketed to improve oral health. This article summarizes current studies on the comparative effectiveness of selected antiseptic mouth rinses in controlling plaque and gingivitis, as well as risks associated with daily exposure, including salivary flow rate, oral cancer and wear of composite restorations. METHODS Electronic database ...

BACKGROUND / AIMS ClO2, the so-called "ideal biocide", could also be applied as an antiseptic if it was understood why the solution killing microbes rapidly does not cause any harm to humans or to animals. Our aim was to find the source of that selectivity by studying its reaction-diffusion mechanism both theoretically and experimentally. METHODS ClO2 permeation measurements through protein m...

Background: Minimizing the bioburden of cutaneous microflora on the surgical site prior to surgery is fundamental to prevention of surgical site infection (SSI). Few studies have prospectively evaluated the adjunctive value of a continuum of advance preoperative antiseptic prepping and the efficacy of differing antiseptic agents for preoperative disinfection of the surgical site in the operatin...

In this paper, using a novel approach involving the truncated Laurent expansion in the Painlevé analysis of the (2+1) dimensional K-dV equation, we have trilinearized the evolution equation and obtained rather general classes of solutions in terms of arbitrary functions. The highlight of this method is that it allows us to construct generalized periodic structures corresponding to different man...