Knowledge About the Comparative Cytotoxic Effect of Herbal Based Commercial Mouthwashes Using Brine Shrimp Lethality Assay

Abstract

Introduction: Comparison of herbal and commercial mouthwashes is important due to their action in oral health. To determine their action and cytotoxic effect by killing the pathogens present in the oral cavity. Objective: To prepare two different glass plates containing equally counted nauplies with commercial mouthwash and herbal mouthwash in it. Materials And Method : Using brine shrimp in Salt water with mouthwashes in two 6X10 plates. Inclusion Criteria: Alive shrimp nauplii , commercial mouthwash , herbal mouthwash Exclusion Criteria: No dead nauplii Result: In the experiment we have found that the commercial mouthwash effect was higher than the herbal mouthwash. The shrimp death was higher in commercial mouthwash. Conclusion: From this study it is concluded that commercial mouthwash is highly recommended to be used and in future study we can study about the effects of commercial mouthwash. Herbal mouthwash effect was less on nauplus and the death of them.