Research Article

The Effectiveness of Remineralizing Agents on Dentinal Permeability

Table 2

Permeability (Lp) data after treatments at different Lp stages.

Treatments
(Lp%)
GC Tooth Mousse Plus
(Group 1)
Clinpro™ White Varnish
(Group 2)
Duraphat® Varnish
(Group 3)
Colgate Sensitive Pro-Relief™ dentifrice
(Group 4)
Biodentine™
(Group 5)

Acid etchant application-
LpT2
100±0100±0100±0100±0100±0
Treatment application-
LpT3
32.8±15.8a28.4±13.4a30.7±17.9a31.8±13.1a30.7±19.7a
Artificial saliva immersion-
7 days-
LpT4
44.7±11.3b20.2±7.6c44.5±19.6b41.7±14.8b34.4±12.1abc
Citric acid challenge-
3minutes
LpT5
66.2±7.5d27.5±11.7a60.7±14.7d58.0±16.8d54.3±15.4d

The values expressed as (%) were reported as means ± standard deviations (n=10) per group identified by different alphabets which are significantly different. All p values are less than 0.05 (p <0.05).