Pengaruh disinfektan klorheksidin pada basis geligi tiruan akrilik untuk menghambat candida albicans
G eligi tiruan sebagian lepasan aKriliK merupaKan geligi tiru yang banyaK digunaKan untuK menggantiKan satu atau iebih gigi ya hilang. Bahan aKriliK sampai saat ini masih banyaK dipaKai Karena rel murah, mudah dimanipulasi dan wamanya sama dengan gusi. PemaKa geligi tiruan sering terjadi Keradangan Karena Kebersihan mulutnya tiddijaga. Akibatnya berbagai mikroorganisme dan jamur dapat tumbuh melekat disekitar geligi tiruan. Jamur tersebut adalah Candida albica Klorheksidin dapat menghambat pertumbuhan Candida albicans den cara denaturasi protein dan menurunkan tegangan permuKaan sehinpermeabilitas sel meningKat dan mengakibatkan Kematian.
A crylic removable partial denture is a denture commonly used to fill in for one or more missing teeth. Acrylic resin is still widely used until now because it is relatively low-cost, fairly easy to manipulate plus acrylic resin has the same color with gingival. Denture wearing often causes irritation, in connection to the lack of oral hygiene. As a result, many kind of microorganism and fungi can be found growing and attaching themselves around the denture. The fungi is known as candida albicans one of the many disinfectant introduced is chlorhexidine is capable if inhibiting the growth of Candida albicans with mechanisms known as protein denaturation and tension-decreasing that will cause improvement in cell permeability which in tura cause the death of fungi.