Chitosan – antibacterial use in dental materials
Inger Sofie Dragland and Hilde M. Kopperud | January 1st 2015
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Chitosan is produced commercially from crab and shrimp shell wastes with different degrees of deacetylation and molecular masses. Because of chitosan’s promising biological activities, including non-toxicity and antimicrobial activity, it is used for a variety of purposes in food production, medicine, agriculture, cosmetics, and biotechnology.