Research Article

Antibacterial Efficacy of Calcium Hypochlorite with Vibringe Sonic Irrigation System on Enterococcus faecalis: An In Vitro Study

Table 1

Bacterial reduction and counts of E. faecalis (in log) before and after irrigation protocols.

GroupBeforeAfterBacterial reduction
Mean ± SDMean ± SDMean ± SD%

G1 (SI + DW)59.880.001a
G2 (SI + NaOCl)99.96<0.001b
G3 (SI + Ca(OCl)2)99.93<0.001b
G4 (VIS + DW)59.42<0.001a
G5 (VIS + NaOCl)99.96<0.001b
G6 (VIS + Ca(OCl)2)99.96<0.001b

Significant difference according to the paired -test ().
The means for groups in heterogeneous subsets are displayed with the different letters and illustrate the significant difference according to analysis of variance for treatment groups ().