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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">2444</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7324/IJCRR.2018.1052</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 Salivary pH Using Herbal, Conventional and Remineralizing Toothpaste: In vivo__ampersandsignnbsp;Study&#13;
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</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Jindal</surname><given-names>Palak</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Mulay</surname><given-names>Sanjyot Anvay</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Rajpurohit</surname><given-names>L.</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>15</day><month>03</month><year>2018</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>7</fpage><lpage>14</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>Objective: The purpose of the study was to compare salivary pH of herbal, conventional and remineralizing toothpaste at various time intervals.&#13;
Materials and Methods: 45 study participants were selected and divided into 3 groups (15 participants in each group). Resting salivary samples were collected before brushing, immediately after brushing i.e. at 0 minutes and at intervals of 10, 30 and 60 minutes respectively, in sterile beakers and evaluated using a digital pH meter.&#13;
Results: The difference in mean salivary pH after brushing was found to be statistically significant for each of herbal, conventional and remineralizing toothpaste at different time intervals. There was a rise in pH seen in all three groups, the least being in herbal toothpaste. However, there was no significant difference in intergroup comparison of different toothpaste at various time intervals.&#13;
Conclusion: The pH of saliva increases after brushing in each of the commercially available toothpaste. Herbal toothpaste presented the least change in salivary pH after brushing.&#13;
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