電解水の歯科臨床における有効な使用方法 : 第1報開業歯科医師に対する使用現状についてのアンケート調査

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Electrolyzed waters involving strong acid, weak acid and neutral waters have been widely used for sterilization and disinfection in clinical dentistry because of their excellent bactericidal and virucidal activities. In the present study, the questionnaires were performed to dental practitioners in 2000 and 2002 in order to investigate the utilizing aspects of the electrolyzed water in private offices. The questionnaire in 2000 revealed that, 25.9 and 11.1% out of 27 offices have used electrolyzed strong and weak acid waters, respectively, and one office has used both types of waters. For the two years from 2000 to 2002, the number of the user of strong acid water decreased to 12.5 % and that of weak acid water increased to 16.7 %. One office replaced the strong acid water with a newly developed neutral water and 2 offices introduced the neutral water. The primary reason for stopping the use of the strong acid water was its potential side effect to corrode metals. The factors to make the offices selected the neutral water, on the other hand, were its lesser corrosivity to metals, longer storage life of bactericidal activity and lower running cost. The users of any electrolyzed water generally appeared to satisfy the clinical performance of several sterilization.
2003-06-25