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Can vegetable dye be used as a photosensitiser for photoactivated disinfection?

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Can vegetable dye be used as a photosensitiser for photoactivated disinfection?
« on: 19/09/2017 20:15:20 »
I want to provide photoactivated disinfection into a periodontal pocket in the mouth using the beam of an LED red light with a 650nm wavelength.  Would a blue or dark  vegetable dye work as the photosynthesizer or would I have to use a traditional photosynthesizer  such as blue  tolonium chloride?
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
« Last Edit: 21/09/2017 08:19:36 by chris »
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Re: Can vegetable dye be used as a photosensitiser for photoactivated disinfection?
« Reply #1 on: 21/09/2017 08:20:18 »
Quote from: Perioscopygal on 19/09/2017 20:15:20
Would a blue or dark  vegetable dye work as the photosynthesizer

Did you mean "photo-sensitiser" rather than photosynthesiser?
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Re: Can vegetable dye be used as a photosensitiser for photoactivated disinfection?
« Reply #2 on: 21/09/2017 12:41:08 »
yes a "photo-sensitiser".  I am looking at dyes such as Methylene blue.  I am curious to know if any dark pigmented solution such as a blue food coloring or a teeth disclosing solution would act in the same manner.
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