Comparison of the Antibacterial Efficacy of Commiphora molmol and Sodium Hypochlorite as Root Canal Irrigants against Enterococcus faecalis and Fusobacterium nucleatum

Table 2

One-way ANOVA for the optimum concentration of myrrh extract that gave maximum antimicrobial effect against Enterococcus faecalis bacteria at 5% significant level.

Dilutions of myrrh extract and controls	The mean absorbance and standard deviation (SD) at different observation periods
	Pre-incubation	24 hours post -incubation
300mg/300uL (1:1)	0.33± 0.45	0.23± 0.25
30mg/300uL (1:10)	1.21± 0.28	0.20± 0.09
3mg/300uL (1:100)	1.49± 0.14	0.34± 0.09
0.3mg/300uL (1:1000)	1.54± 0.08	0.41± 0.09
0.03mg/300uL (1:10000)	1.52± 0.03	0.23± 0.11
DMSO	0.09± 0.01	0.09± 0.02
Bacteria	0.25± 0.02	0.83± 0.07
Media (-ve control)	0.06± 0.002	0.32± 0.33
2.5 % NaOCl	0.11± 0.03	0.13± 0.02
F-value	109.64	15.63
p-value	<0.0001	<0.0001

Significant at P value < 0.05.