Original scientific paper
Microbial flora of dental plaque in subjects wearing total acrylate dentures
Asja Čelebić
; School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Goranka Prpić
; School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Dunja Buntak-Kobler
; School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
As the cause of denture stomatitis is of a multifactorial nature, and denture cleanliness and denture plaque play one of the most important roles, the composition of denture plaque was studied in correlation with denture cleanliness and degree of mucosal inflammation under denture base. A group of 115 subjects, all of them
wearing total acrylate prostheses, were clinically eyamined. the degree of mucosal inflammation was scored by Newton’s index, and plaque by modified Tarbet’s index. Plaque samples were taken from inner surfaces of dentures, while inflamed mucosa under the dentures was sampled in 20 subjects. The higiene was found to be poor and plaque index > 2 recorded in 79% of subjects. In 92% of the patients, inflammation was present under the denture base, while in 25% of the patients the degree of inflammation was > 1. In denture plaque, Streptococci were predominant (52.8% on the inner surface of the denture and 69.6% on inflamed micosa), whereas the percentage of Candida was 20.5% on the inner surface of the denture and 16.6% of inflamed micosa. It is therefore important to teach patients how to perform proper oral hygiene.
Keywords
denture stomatitis; microorganisms; plaque
Hrčak ID:
105071
URI
Publication date:
15.9.1988.
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