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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">3469</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2021.SP148</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Comparative Assessment of Sodium Hypochlorite, UV Radiation, Aloe Vera and Microwave Irradiation for Disinfection of Impression Materials&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>B</surname><given-names>Kandasamy</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>P</surname><given-names>Sharma</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>RN</surname><given-names>Reddy</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>G</surname><given-names>Rajkumar</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>S</surname><given-names>Karthikeyan</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>S</surname><given-names/></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>10</day><month>03</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>nt</volume><issue>es</issue><fpage>35</fpage><lpage>38</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: There is a chance of cross-infection between dental clinics and dental laboratories with contaminated impression materials. Objective: To evaluate the sodium hypochlorite, UV radiation, aloe vera and microwave irradiation for disinfection of impression materials. Methods: The present research was done in the department of Prosthodontic. The study consists of 40 alginate impression materials which were disinfectant with Sodium hypochlorite, UV radiation, aloe vera and microwave irradiation for disinfection of impression materials. The pre and post bacterial count was evaluated. Results: The average post disinfection of microbial contamination showed that; Group 1 with sodium hypochlorite was more ef fective (359.1 at pre and 24.1 at the post) with lesser microbial count followed by group IV with microwave irradiation (336 at pre and 35.7 at the post), Group-III with UV radiation and least effective (342.4 at pre and 102.6 at the post) with Aleo vera (311.4 at pre and 82.1 at the post). Application of the one-way ANOVA test showed substantial variance (P__ampersandsignlt; 0.05) in CFU in all groups. Conclusion: Authors observed that sodium hypochlorite is the better method of sterilization along with microwave irradiation. Whereas UV radiation and Aleo vera were also effective as a disinfectant.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd> Aleo vera</kwd><kwd> Disinfection</kwd><kwd> Impression materials</kwd><kwd> Sodium hypochlorite</kwd><kwd> UV radiation</kwd><kwd> Microwave irradiation</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
