Research Article

Evaluation of the Antimicrobial Effect of Mineral Trioxide Aggregate Mixed with Fluorohydroxyapatite against E. faecalis In Vitro

Table 1

The means and standard deviations of colony counts (CFU/mL) based on the DCA test in the study groups.

Microbial testGroupsAfter 24 hoursAfter 72 hours
MeanSDMinMaxMeanSDMinMax

DCAMTA30 × 1082.64 × 10828 × 10833 × 10839.66 × 1083.05 × 10837 × 10843 × 108
MTA-10% FHA22.66 × 1082.08 × 10821 × 10825 × 10832.33 × 1083.21 × 10830 × 10836 × 108
MTA-15% FHA16.33 × 1082.08 × 10814 × 10818 × 10822.33 × 1083.05 × 10819 × 10825 × 108