Abstract

A REVIEW ON,”ACTIVITY OF ANTIBACTERIAL TOOTHPASTE ON TOOTH SENSITIVITY

Karishma Yadav and Shashikant Maury*

ABSTRACT

Potassium Nitrate has been used as a desensitizing agent to treat dentinal hypersensitivity. The effectiveness of a potassium nitrate is evaluated both in the form of a toothpaste and a mouthwash in a clinical study. Thirty patients were assessed using evaporative stimuli and thermal stimuli and response was evaluated using Visual Analogue Scale at baseline, at 2 weeks and 4 weeks. Since many centuries, Ayurveda regarded neem (Azadirachta indica Family: Meliaceae) as a cure for many ailments, predominantly due to its superb antimicrobial activity. It has been a practice since time immemorial to usetender twigs of neem as dentifrice. Looking as these facts the possibility of developing an authentic dentifrice fromneem extract and formulations were formulated and evaluated for their antimicrobial activity and some formulation were found to have significant antimicrobial activity. For the present work the tender stems of neem were specifically chosen so that most specific results could be obtained especially when neem powder is selected for developingdentifrices during our physicochemical evaluation studies all the formulations were found to have ph, good tube extrubility good spredability and viscosity characteristics.

Keywords: Azadirachta indica, Potassium nitrate, Antibacterial agent, Sensitive activity.