Aloe vera may be a useful intracanal medicament, finds study
Dentists have explored many options for the intracanal medicaments and have recently found out that Aloe vera, in contrast to calcium hydroxide, eliminated 4th and 6th-week biofilms and showed remarkable antibacterial properties against E. faecalis biofilm and can be used as an intracanal medicament while doing root canal treatments.
The study is published in the International Journal of Dentistry.
Use of herbal compounds as an intracanal medicament in the field of endodontics has become noteworthy, one of which is the Aloe vera compound whose antibacterial effect has already been proven in the planktonic form of Enterococcus faecalis. Aloe vera is biocompatible and has no toxicity problem in the long term adjacent to the tissues around the root.
Therefore, Negin Ghasemi and colleagues from the Research Center for Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology, Department of Endodontics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran carried out this study with the purpose to evaluate the antibacterial properties of Aloe vera gel as an intracanal medicament against E. faecalis biofilm at the 4th and 6th week of development by the colony-forming unit (CFU) counting method to see whether Aloe vera gel has equal activity with other conventional antimicrobial agents.
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