1999, Number 6
Prevalence of Candida in oral cavity of geriatric patients
Campos BAM, Ovalle CW
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: 150 patients from 60 to 104 years old from the City of Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico were reviewed for candida albicans.Material and methods: Oral exfoliative citology from the cheek and tongue, were taken, slides were stained with Papanicolaou method. The slides were observed with an optic microscope Carl Zeizz with 10X. The amount of colonies was measured reviewing five camps to each slide and also, grouping them in decades of life, mean colonies of Candida albicans were obtained. Using the Student-t-test it was stablished the statistic significance.
Results: 104 women and 46 men with an age average of 71.5 years old. In the 60-69 years old the zone of cheek had the mean colonies of 1.9 ± 1.5. In the tongue there was a mean of 1.7 ± 1.4; for both areas 1.8 ± 1.4. In 70-79 years group, the mean was 1.3 ± 1.4 for the cheek; 1.3 ± 1.2 for the tongue and 1.3 ± 1.2 for both areas. In the 80-104 years group, the average was of 1.3 ± 1.5 for the cheek 1.3 ± 1.4 for the tongue and 1.2 ± 1.3 in both areas.
Conclusions: There is a statistic significance for the values of 60-69 years against 70-79 years, also from 60-69 years against 80-104 years. The presence of colonies of C. albicans by mean were decresing according with the age.
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