Baba Farid University Dental Journal
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue: 2

Evaluation of Antimicrobial efficacy of two MTA based endodontic sealers against E. faecalis-An In-vitro analysis

  • Author:
  • Rishu Gautam1,, Manpreet Kaur2, Jasmeet Kaur3
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 4 to 7

1Senior lecturer, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Baba Jaswant Singh Dental College and Hopsital, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

2Senior lecturer, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Rayat Bahra Dental College & Hospital, Mohali, Punjab, India

3Senior lecturer, Department of Orthodontics, Baba Jaswant Singh Dental College and Hopsital, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

*Corresponding author Dr. Rishu Gautam, Senior lecturer, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Baba Jaswant Singh Dental College and Hopsital, Ludhiana, Punjab, India. rishu12.rg@gmail.com

Online published on 17 February, 2020.

Abstract

The aim of the study was to evaluate the anti-microbial efficacy of two MTA based endodontic sealers.

Antimicrobial efficacy of MTA fillapex (Angelus, Brazil) and Endoseal MTA (Maruchi, Korea) against E. faecalis was determined by using Agar diffusion test (ADT). Zinc oxide eugenol was taken as a positive control group. ADT was performed by placing sealers on ten wells of 4 mm diameter and 4 mm height on Muller Hinton agar plates in each group. Plates were then inoculated with standard suspension of E. faecalis and after 24 hours, zone of inhibition was measured around the wells following the standard protocol.

Collected data was subjected to statistical analysis which revealed that Endoseal MTA performed significantly better than MTA fillapex and ZOE (Endoflas FS) against Enterococcus faecalis.

Keywords

MTA, Enterococcus faecalis and Endodontic sealers