Anticariogenic and antibacterial properties of a copper varnish using an In vitro microbial caries model

Operative Dentistry

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 142-148

  Thneibat, Amenah ^a   Fontana, Margherita ^a,b   Cochran, Michael A ^a   Gonzalez Cabezas, Carlos ^a   Moore, B Keith ^a   Matis, Bruce A ^a   Lund, Melvin R ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b Indiana University School of Dentistry ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICARIES AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BIOMEDICAL AND DENTAL MATERIALS; CERVITEC; CHLORHEXIDINE; COPALITE; COPPER; COPPER SEAL; PAINT; PLANT RESIN; THYMOL; TOOTH CEMENT; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; FLUORESCENCE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROBIOLOGY; PH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TOOTH DISEASE; TOOTH PLAQUE; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; CARIOSTATIC AGENTS; CHLORHEXIDINE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; COPPER; DENTAL CEMENTS; DENTAL MATERIALS; DENTAL PLAQUE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LACQUER; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; RESINS, PLANT; ROOT CARIES; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; THYMOL; TOOTH DEMINERALIZATION;

EID: 41049097118     PISSN: 03617734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2341/07-50     Document Type: Article

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