Vitamin E: A potential preventive approach against dental erosion-an in vitro short-term erosive study.

Rios, Daniela; Boteon, Ana Paula; Di Leone, Camilla Cristina Lira; Castelluccio, Tainara Tonon; Mendonça, Fernanda Lyrio; Ionta, Franciny Querobim; Buzalaf, Marília Afonso Rabelo; Saads Carvalho, Thiago (2021). Vitamin E: A potential preventive approach against dental erosion-an in vitro short-term erosive study. Journal of dentistry, 113, p. 103781. Elsevier Science 10.1016/j.jdent.2021.103781

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OBJECTIVES

This study evaluated the in vitro effect of different components of palm oil on enamel in a short-term erosive challenge.

METHODS

The acquired enamel pellicle (AEP) was previously formed in situ for 2 h. Subsequently, the bovine enamel blocks were treated in vitro according to following solutions: G1-palm oil; G2-85% tocotrienol solution; G3-oily vitamin E; G4-oily vitamin A; G5-deionized water (negative control); G6-stannous-containing solution (Elmex® Erosion Protection Dental Rinse) (positive control). After application of the treatment solutions (500 µl, 30 s), the blocks were immersed in 0.5% citric acid (pH 2.4) during 30 s (initial erosion). The response variable was the percentage of surface hardness loss. Data were analyzed by one-way ANOVA and Fisher's Test (p < 0.05).

RESULTS

The positive control (G6), palm oil (G1) and oily vitamin E (G3) groups presented the lowest percentage of surface hardness loss, and were statistically different from the negative group (G5) (p < 0.05), and no differences were found between these three groups. The 85% tocotrienol solution (G2) and oily vitamin A groups (G4) were not different to the negative control group.

CONCLUSIONS

Stannous-containing positive control (Elmex® Erosion Protection), palm oil and oily Vitamin E were able to protect enamel against the erosive challenge performed in this in vitro study. In addition, vitamin E is probably the key ingredient of palm oil responsible for preventing enamel erosion.

CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE

Vitamin E presented similar preventive effect to a commercial mouthwash stannous-containing solution (Elmex® Erosion Protection) against initial erosion and, it can be considered as a promising natural alternative for the formulations of solutions aiming to prevent erosive tooth wear.

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