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Clinical evaluation of resilient denture liners. Part 2: candida count and speciation by Mary E. Brosky; Igor J. Pesun; Brad Morrison; James S. Hodges; Juey H. Lai; William Liljemark is a Dentistry article available to read on EtoBox.

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**Purpose** The purpose of this study was to count and to speciate __Candida__ isolated from 2 resilient denture liners, Molloplast‐B and MPDS‐SL. **Materials and Methods** A group of 20 patients each had 1 maxillary denture and 2 mandibular dentures fabricated. One mandibular denture was lined with Molloplast‐B, and 1 was lined with MPDS‐SL. Each denture was used for 3 months. At the end of the 3‐month period, the mandibular denture was surrendered, and a 5 × 5‐mm circular resilient liner sample was obtained from the tissue surface of the lingual flange. Samples were processed, and __Candida__ was isolated and counted. Speciation of __Candida__ was performed using CHROMagar Candida and API 20C AUX strips. **Results** Molloplast‐B had, on average, 5 times as many CFU/sample as MPDSL‐SL, but this difference was not significant (__p__= 0.26). A sign test gave a similar nonsignificant trend (__p__= 0.057). CHROMagar identified several __Candida__ species, and confirmation was made using API 20C AUX strips. One patient was lost to follow‐up. Of 19 Molloplast‐B samples, 7 had no growth, 4 grew __C. albicans__, 3 grew __C. parapsilosis__, 2 grew __C. glabrata__, 1 grew __C. tropicalis__,

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Author

Mary E. Brosky; Igor J. Pesun; Brad Morrison; James S. Hodges; Juey H. Lai; William Liljemark

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Elsevier BV; Wiley (ISSN 1059-941X)

Published

2003

Language

EN

Field

Dentistry (Health Sciences)