LILACS – Literatura Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Ciencias de la Salud

Clinical trial for evaluation of Ricinus communis and sodium hypochlorite as denture cleanser

BADARÓ, Maurício Malheiros; SALLES, Marcela Moreira; LEITE, Vanessa Maria Fagundes; ARRUDA, Carolina Noronha Ferraz de; OLIVEIRA, Viviane de Cássia; NASCIMENTO, Cássio do; SOUZA, Raphael Freitas de; PARANHOS, Helena de Freitas de Oliveira; SILVA-LOVATO, Cláudia Helena.

J. appl. oral sci; 25 (3), 2017

Abstract The development of opportunistic infections due to poor denture hygiene conditions justified the search for effective hygiene protocols for controlling denture biofilm. Objective This study evaluated Ricinus communis and sodium hypochlorite solutions in terms of biofilm removal ability, remiss...

Análisis de Varianza, Antiinfecciosos Locales, Biopelículas/efectos de los fármacos, Candidiasis Bucal/tratamiento farmacológico, Recuento de Colonia Microbiana, Limpiadores de Dentadura, Dentadura Completa Superior/microbiología, Método Doble Ciego, Modelos Logísticos, Satisfacción del Paciente, Reproducibilidad de los Resultados, Ricinus/química, Hipoclorito de Sodio, Propiedades de Superficie, Factores de Tiempo, Resultado del Tratamiento

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Candida spp. in complete dentures of institutionalized elderly individuals

The objective of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of Candida spp. in complete dentures of institucionalized elderly, aged 60 or more, in a city of northeast of Brazil. A survey was conducted of the health profile and quantification of Candida spp. from isolation in Sabouraud agar. Our results sh...