ABSTRAK
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ABSTRACT
Sterptococcus mutans causing dental caries is very instrumental. Currently many
methods used to prevent caries, by inhibiting the growth of bacteria that cause dental
caries using materials available in nature. Jatropha (Jatropha curcas L) is a plant that has
been widely used by public to reduce tooth pain. Animals also can be an alternative for
prevent dental caries. For example, snail slime (Achatina fulica) commonly used by
communities to reduce pain in the tooth. In 2002 showed that the prevalence of dental
caries patients ranged from 60% which means that out of every 10 people of Indonesia,
six of them have dental caries. While the data from the Ministry of Health in 2007
showed an increase of about 71.1% of Indonesia's population from children to elderly
adults exposed to dental caries. The using of antibiotics for dental caries in long term
will cause side effects. Thats why the authors choose an alternative medicine from
jatropha and snail slime. The purpose of this study illustrates the effect of jatropha
(Jatropha curcas L) and snail slime (Achatina fulica) as inhibitors of the growth of the
bacteria Streptococcus mutans and we could know which one is better as an inhibitors
for Streptococcus mutans between jatropha (Jatropha curcas L) and snail slime
(Achatina fulica). The parameters is the diameter of inhibition zone of jatropha (Jatropha
curcas L) and snail slime (Achatina fulica) from Streptococcus mutans bacteria cultures
for 1 X 24 hour incubation. Concentrations are respectively 100% with 3 times
replication. The data obtained were analyzed with T test with a significance level of 1%.
The results showed there was effect of jatropha (Jatropha curcas L) and snail slime
(Achatina fulica) in inhibiting the growth of Streptococcus mutans bacteria and jatropha
(Jatropha curcas L) is more effective as inhibitor for the growth of Streptococcus
mutans bacteria than snail slime (Achatina fulica).
Key words: Streptococcus mutans, jatropha, snail slime.
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