The Mixture of Topical Anesthetic and Chlorhexidine at the Delivery Site in Microbial Reduction Efficiency

Table 3: Antimicrobial reduction scores.

Growth Compared to the Negative Control	Antimicrobial Scores
No growth or > 95% bacterial reduction	4
Growth density was 60–95% bacterial reduction	3
Growth density was 40–60% bacterial reduction	2
Growth density was 5–40% bacterial reduction	1
Growth density comparable to the negative control or less than 5% bacterial reduction	0

Note: The negative control is the growth of bacteria without the tested solution.