Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Glass Ionomer Cement (GIC) is used for cementing orthodontic bands because of its anti-cariogenic property, which is attributed to the release of fluoride. Therefore, it is of interest to assess the antimicrobial property (AM-P) and micro-leakage (ML) of GIC incorporated with different concentration of N-acetylcysteine (N-AC) & copper nanoparticle (Cu-NP). Our study composed of 5 groups i.e. group I is control with different concentration of N-AC & Cu-NP involving each group with 8 samples. We found that, group V showed the highest ZOI, while the ML was seen highest for group I with a score of 2.2 ą 1.09 and the least score was recorded for Group III (0.8ą 0.37), thus addition of 2% Cu-NP and 15% N-AC resulted in minimal ML. We conclude that increase in concentration of N-AC & CU-NP AM-P efficiency also increases; on the other hand, increase in the concentration of N-AC & Cu-NP did not decrease the ML.
Source: Bioinformation
Language: English
Subfield: Orthodontics
Field: Dentistry
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4407066685