Nano Biomedicine
ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Effect of Enzymatic Denture Cleaners on Candida Albicans Cultured on a Soft Relining Material

Akiko MIYAKE1, Tomoharu OKAMURA2, Harumi ISONO2, Katsuhiro SUZUKI2, Tatsushi NAITO3, Takehiro YOSHIKANE2, Hayato OKA4, Kenji MAEKAWA3, Kazuya TOMINAGA2, and Shizuo HIGUCHI1

1Department of Oral Health Engineering, Faculty of Health Sciences,
2Department of Oral Pathology, School of Dentistry,
3Department of Removable Prosthodontics and Occlusion, School of Dentistry,
4Department of English, School of Dentistry,
Osaka Dental University, Osaka, Japan
Nano Biomed 2024; 16(2): 66-72, (Dec 30, Nano Biomedicine)
Synopsis
Patients missing multiple teeth are often treated with dentures to address masticatory, articulatory, and swallowing dysfunction. Soft relining material is indicated in clinical dentistry when the mu-cosa at the site of denture use is associated with abnormalities of the mucosa due to denture use. However, soft relining material is difficult to clean, and dentures are prone to becoming unclean. Growth of Candida albicans can be a problem for poor denture cleaning. In the present study, C. albicans was cultured on the surface of the soft relining material and then cleaned with an en-zyme-based denture cleanser. Cleaning effect was observed from the morphology of C. albicans and surface structure of the soft relining material was observed from the surface roughness and cross-sectional curves. It was inferred that C. albicans was reduced and didn’t cause nano-sized damage to surface microstructure due to the properties of the enzyme component in the en-zyme-based detergent.

Key words:soft relining material, Candida albicans, Enzyme-based denture cleaner, oral care, healthy life expectancy
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DOI: 10.11344/nano.16.66

Miyake A, Okumura T, Isono H, Suzuki K, Naito T, Yoshikane T, Oka H, Maekawa K, Tominaga K, Higuchi S. Effect of enzymatic denture cleaners on Candida Albicans cultured on a soft relining material. Nano Biomed 2004; 16(2): 66-72.