Antimicrobial action of Denture Adhesive.

Antimicrobial action of five commercially avaiable denture cleaning pastes and one tooth paste on Streptococcus sanguis ATCC 10556, Staphylococcus aureus 209 P, Actinomyces viscosus ATCC 15987, Candida albicans ATCC 18804, and Bacteroides gingivalis clinical were studied.Tooth paste revealed antimicrobial activity on microorganims tested exception for C. albicans. All denture cleaning pastes showed good antimicrobial activity on all microorganisms tested than tooth paste.This result indicates that denture cleaning paste is effective for preventing of denture stomatitis when denture cleaning paste is carefully used.