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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2422</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7324/IJCRR.2018.1023</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Comparative Evaluation of the Antibacterial Activity of Calcium Hydroxide in Combination with&#13;
2% Chlorhexidine and Ozonated Chlorhexidine Against E.faecalis __ampersandsignndash; An Invitro Study&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>C.</surname><given-names>Ravivarman</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>A.</surname><given-names>Karthikeyan</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>M.</surname><given-names>Senthilkumaran</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>R.</surname><given-names>Josephin Shalini</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>19</day><month>01</month><year>2018</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>16</fpage><lpage>18</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Introduction: Calcium hydroxide has been used with various vehicles in the treatment modalities of Endodontics. Owing to the increased antibacterial resistance, Ozone is currently being discussed as a possible alternative vehicle because of its reported high antimicrobial property without the development of drug resistance.&#13;
Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate and compare the effectiveness of calcium Hydroxide in combination with 2% chlorhexidine and ozonated chlorhexidine for elimination of E.faecalis bacteria.&#13;
Materials and Methods: In this study aqueous ozone was used, it was prepared by passing gaseous ozone through CHX in a glass beaker. Minimal inhibitory concentration of ozonated CHX was obtained by serial dilution method. The samples were assigned to 3 groups: Group I- Calcium hydroxide with saline; Group II- Calcium hydroxide with 2% Chlorhexidine; Group IIICalcium hydroxide with ozonated chlorhexidine. Efficacy of intracanal medicaments against E.faecalis was carried out by disc diffusion method. Results were statistically analysed by one way ANOVA.&#13;
Results: The antimicrobial effectiveness of the samples in Group II where ozone was ozonated with reduced percentage i.e. 0.12% was around 21mm which is almost equal to that of 2% CHX and the results were found to be statistically significant at 0.5.&#13;
Conclusion: Ozonated CHX with reduced concentration possessed similar antimicrobial effect as conventional CHX in combination with calcium hydroxide.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Ozone</kwd><kwd> Chlorhexidine</kwd><kwd> Calcium hydroxide</kwd><kwd> Zone of inhibition</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
