Want to make your restorations last longer? Add a dab of chlorhexidine to the preparation. That’s the latest tip from some researchers presenting their findings at the recent American Association for Dental Research (AADR) meeting in Washington, DC. In fact, a few dental professors are so convinced it works they’re already teaching it to their students as standard procedure.
And surprisingly, the main argument for adding this well-known disinfectant has nothing to do with bacteria.
“I think we’re one of the first schools in the country to use it,” said Peter Moon, Ph.D., director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Dental Biomaterials Laboratory. “I feel pretty strongly that it works.”
Moon expects his review of the research to be published in a forthcoming issue of the Open Dentistry Journal. Another research group published a clinical trial last summer in Operative Dentistry (July-August 2009, Vol. 34:4, pp. 379-383).
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