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ArticleJournal of conservative dentistry and endodontics2024

Efficiency of a high-speed handpiece with anti-retraction adapter to minimize cross-contamination during the routine dental procedure: A clinical study.

S R Subhiksha, Buvaneshwari Arul, Velmurugan Natanasabapathy

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Article in Journal of conservative dentistry and endodontics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

S R SubhikshaUndergraduate Student, Faculty of Dentistry, Meenakshi Academy of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Buvaneshwari ArulDepartment of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Meenakshi Academy of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Velmurugan NatanasabapathyDepartment of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Meenakshi Academy of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: This study aimed to detect the efficiency of anti-retraction adapter (ARA) attached to a handpiece (HP). Materials and Methods: Two types of dental HP with and without the ARA were used in this study. A total of 30 sets of samples were obtained from two groups and were subjected to a real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and microbial culture for quantitative analysis of total bacterial and Statistical Analysis Used: The data obtained were tabulated using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS, IBM version 26.0) for statistical analysis. Results: The water samples were analyzed using PCR, Conclusions: The reduction in bacterial load in DUWLs analyzed using quantitative RT-PCR was similar in both experimental groups. Overall, the bacterial load was lower in the group with ARA when compared to the group without ARA but not statistically significant. ARA was not effective in reducing the

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Anti-retraction adapterDental Unit Waterlinesdisinfection (MeSH)high-speed dental equipment (MeSH)

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PMID38779213
PMCPMC11108424

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