Background Increasing resistance of oral pathogens to conventional antibacterial agents
has resulted to find alternative therapies to overcome resistance development problems;
hence this in vitro study was carried out to investigate the efficacy of photoelimination of
Streptococcus mutans with two methods of photodynamic and photothermal therapy.
Methods Standard Suspensions of S. mutans were treated in two groups of photodynamic
therapy with Toluidine blue O and Rhadachlorin® and photothermal therapy by EmunDo® …