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Mohammad Frough Reyhani1, Negin Ghasemi1, Sahar Shakouie1
1Department of Endodontics, Dental School, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran;
Introduction:
The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether adding 2% chlorhexidine (CHX) and 2.6% sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl) to calcium-enriched mixture (CEM) cement would affect its setting time (ST), or not.
Methods And Materials:
In this study, the setting time of CEM cement was evaluated in three groups (n=9) as follows: group 1; CEM cement, group 2; CEM cement+2% CHX and group 3; CEM cement+2.6% NaOCl. Then the mean values of ST were calculated and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was used to evaluate the normal distribution of data. The Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney U tests were used for statistical analysis. Statistical significance was set at 0.05.
Results:
The mean ST for groups 1, 2 and 3 were 105, 120 and 220 min, respectively. There was a significant increase in the duration of ST in group 3 (NaOCl) in comparison with the two other groups (P<0.05).
Conclusion:
NaOCl significantly increased the ST of CEM cement, whereas chlorhexidine did not alter the ST.
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