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    Are herbal mouthwash efficacious over chlorhexidine on the dental plaque?

    Devanand Gupta1,2★, Swapna Nayan3, Harshad K. Tippanawar4, Gaurav I. Patil5, Ankita Jain6, Rizwan K. Momin7, Rajendra Kumar Gupta8★ Corresponding author

    1. 1Department of Public Health Dentistry, Institute of Dental Science, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh
    2. 2General Secretary, International Society for Holistic Dentistry, Uttrakhand
    3. 3Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, D.Y Patil Dental College, Nerul, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra
    4. 4Departments of Conservative, Endodontics and Esthetics Dentistry
    5. 5Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics, JSS Dental College and Hospital, Mysore
    6. 6Department of Public Health Dentistry, Teerthanker Mahaveer Dental College and Research Centre, Moradabad
    7. 7Department of Oral Pathology, Jaipur Dental College, Jaipur
    8. 8Principal, Government Degree college, Banbasa, Uttrakhand, India

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    Devanand Gupta

    *Address for correspondence: Dr. Devanand Gupta, Assistant Professor, Department of Public health Dentistry, Institute of Dental Science, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India.

    drdevanandgupta@aol.com

    Revised: 23-03-2015.

    Volume 7, Issue 3 · pp. 277–281 · PUBLISHED July-September 2015 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.155874

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    Aim To compare the effect of herbal extract mouthwash and chlorhexidine mouthwash on the dental plaque level. Materials and Methods The subjects (60 healthy medical students aged ranges between 20 and 25 years) were randomly divided into two groups, that is, the herbal group and the chlorhexidine gluconate mouthwash group. The data were collected at the baseline and 3 days. The plaque was disclosed using erythrosine disclosing agent and their scores were recorded using the Quigley and Hein plaque index modified by Turesky-Gilmore-Glickman. Statistical analysis was carried out later to compare the effect of all the two groups. Results Our result showed that the chlorhexidine group shows a greater decrease in plaque score followed by herbal extract, but the result was statistically insignificant. Conclusion The results indicate that herbal mouthwash may prove to be an effective agent owing to its ability to reduce plaque level, especially in low socioeconomic strata.

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      Gupta, D., Nayan, S., Tippanawar, H. K., Patil, G. I., Jain, A., Momin, R. K., & Gupta, R. K. (2015). Are herbal mouthwash efficacious over chlorhexidine on the dental plaque?. Pharmacognosy Research, 7(3), 277–281. https://doi.org/10.4103/0974-8490.155874