Denture stomatitis in nursing home patients.

All 352 patients in two nursing-homes in Orebro were examined. In one of the homes microbiological tests could be done on the patients with full upper dentures. The samples were taken both from the denture and the oral mucosa. Candida albicans, Yeast, Staph. aureus, B-hemolytic streptococci and Klebsiella/Enterobacter were controlled. In samples from the oral mucosa a correlation was found between stomatitis, Candida albicans and Staph. aureus (P less than 0.01). A weak correlation was also found between stomatitis and Klebsiella/Enterobacter (0.01 less than P less than 0.05). In samples from the dentures there were only a weaker correlation between Stomatitis, Candida albicans and Staph. aureus (0.1 less than P less than 0.05).