Publications by authors named "Arasappan Rajkumar"
Objectives: To determine salivary melatonin and malondialdehyde levels in individuals with and without dental caries.
Materials And Methods: Saliva samples were collected in a fasting state from patients with active dental caries (n = 16) and patients without dental caries (n = 16). Melatonin was measured in the samples using a commercially available ELISA kit and malondialdehyde was assayed using a standardized spectrophotometric method.
Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the antifungal efficacy of a novel endodontic irrigant octenidine against conventional irrigants sodium hypochlorite and EDTA on growth in the young and old population by calculating the number of colonies formed and by qualitative identification of dead/viable fungi by Confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) method.
Materials And Methods: The total number of samples used in the study was eighty samples after decoronation of the crown portion the middle third of root canal. Each group was subdivided into four subgroups with various irrigation protocols: (A) 17% EDTA + 5.