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Recently Dielectric Barrier Discharge plasma is being explored for its application as an alternative to the conventional sterilization and disinfection techniques in medical sciences. Dielectric barrier discharge plasma torch has been developed to study the interaction of plasma and effect of its treatment on the growth rate of S. aures, Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis and E. faecalis. Plasma treated E. faecalis was compared with Chlorhexidine treated cultures and biofilms of E. faecalis. The results are analysed for significance (P < 0.001) using ANOVA and TUCKEY’s test. In-situ optical emission spectroscopy has been employed to identify the plasma species interacting with the bioculture and biofilm. Based on its efficient disinfecting properties dielectric barrier discharge plasma has been proved to be a promising alternative to traditional techniques used for sterilization during the endodontic treatment.
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ASB is thankful to UGC for the award of Ph.D. fellowship. SVB is thankful to DST and CSIR, New Delhi for the financial support and award of ES fellowship.
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Bansode, A.S. et al. (2014). Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma for Endodontic Treatment. In: Fernández-Chimeno, M., et al. Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies. BIOSTEC 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 452. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44485-6_7
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