Studies on the Antibacterial Effects of the Medicaments used in Root Canal Therapy

Part 1. Five Commercial Cavity Varnishes

Abstract

Available published literature on the antibacterial effects of various medicaments used for the treatment and prevention of dental caries of bacterial origin [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] is almost confined to studies from a bacteriological point of view and, for this reason, it does not provide sufficient evaluation of their clinical efficacy.
For the purpose of making good this deficiency, therefore, the present authors performed a series of tests in which clinical efficacy was highlighted on the 5 dental cavity varnishes commonly in use in the general dental practice.