Prosthodontic Appliance Wearing and Its Relationship to Oral Pain Sensation, Fungal Infection and Measures for Management

Abstract

Back ground: Many Iraqi dentures wearer suffered from oral pain sensation and candidiasis, so this study is important to prevent, decrease and manage the symptoms of these diseases, therefore the current study aimed to evaluate the relationship between the denture wearing, oral pain sensation and candidiasis caused by dentures and how it was managed. Subjects and methods: Twenty patients (12males and 8 females) were selected from Hospitals and special private dental clinics in Baghdad as studied sample, all of them wore badly constructed partial or complete denture. Patient's ages ranged between 40-65 years. Similar control group was choosen with the same number of males and females and nearly similar age group, all of them did not wear any dental appliances.Medical and dental history were taken from all the participants in the current study, also clinical examination and laboratory investigations were done to evaluate the badly constructed dental appliances in feeling oral pain sensation and developing candidiasis.Results: The study revealed that people who constructed bad dental appliances were more to be affected with oral pain sensation and candidiasis than others, especially with woman after 45 years or around the menopausal period or subjects with bad oral hygiene and that may lead to discomfortable oral mucosal sensation.Conclusion: The recent study showed that people with continuous wearing of dental appliances are more commonly effected with candidiasis and oral pain sensation, the laboratory investigations revealed that candida albicans was the most common type that causes candidiasis, also many local and systemic factors may share in the occurance of these diseases. Two types of drugs were used to treat the candidiasis, that means the patients in the study ground when they were treaded, some of them removed the dentures from their months during the period of treatment, those developed improvement than others.