Title

Anti-microbial and micro-leakage properties of orthodontic cement

Authors

Afreen Wahab*, Chanamallappa Ganiger, Renuka Pawar, Sandesh Phaphe & Yusuf Ronad

Affiliation

Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics, School of Dental Sciences, Krishan Vishwa Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University), Karad, Satara, Maharashtra, India; *Corresponding author
 

Email

Afreen Wahab - E - mail: afugujarat@gmail.com
Chanamallappa Ganiger - E - mail: channapparganiger@gmail.com
Renuka Pawar - E - mail: drrenukapawar@hotmail.com
Sandesh Phaphe - E - mail: sandeshphaphe2541@gmail.com
Yusuf Ronad - E - mail: dryusufr14@gmail.com

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received October 1, 2024; Revised October 31, 2024; Accepted October 31, 2024, Published October 31, 2024

Abstract

Glass Ionomer Cement (GIC) is used for cementing orthodontic bands because of its anti-cariogenic property, which is attributed to the release of fluoride. Therefore, it is of interest to assess the antimicrobial property (AM-P) and micro-leakage (ML) of GIC incorporated with different concentration of N-acetylcysteine (N-AC) & copper nanoparticle (Cu-NP). Our study composed of 5 groups i.e. group I is control with different concentration of N-AC & Cu-NP involving each group with 8 samples. We found that, group V showed the highest ZOI, while the ML was seen highest for group I with a score of 2.2 ± 1.09 and the least score was recorded for Group III (0.8± 0.37), thus addition of 2% Cu-NP and 15% N-AC resulted in minimal ML. We conclude that increase in concentration of N-AC & CU-NP AM-P efficiency also increases; on the other hand, increase in the concentration of N-AC & Cu-NP did not decrease the ML.
 

Keywords

Glass Ionomer Cement (GIC), antimicrobial property (AM-P), micro-leakage (ML), N-acetylcysteine (N-AC) & copper nanoparticle (Cu-NP).
 

Citation

Wahab et al. Bioinformation 20(10): 1368-1373 (2024)

Edited by

Neelam Goyal & Shruti Dabi

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.