Original Article

Year : 2023 | Volume : 7 | Issue : 1 | Page : 6-18

Association Between Smoking and Smokeless from of Tobacco With candida Species in The Oral Cavity.

Maheswari Elumalai1

1Public Health Dentist and Implantologist, Private Practioner, Sarvesh Dental Clinic, Mogappair West, Chennai-37.

Address for Correspondence:

Name: Maheswari Elumalai

Private Practioner, Public Health Dentist and Implantologist, Sarvesh Dental Clinic, Mogappair West, Chennai-37.

Email: e.maheswari00@gmail.com

Contact: 9677468026

Abstract

Candida species constitute a part of the human oral commensal flora in 2 to 71 percent of healthy subjects.  Several previous studies have reported that tobacco smoking, either alone or in combination with other systemic or local factors, is associated with increased oral candidal colonization or with the development of oral candidosis. It has been suggested that cigarette smoking might lead to localized epithelial alterations allowing candidal colonization. Cigarette smoke may also provide nutrition for candida albicans. Theories offer partial explanations why smokers may be more prone to candidal leukoplakia with higher potential for malignant changes than other leukoplakias. The aim of the study was to assess and compare the quantitative oral colonization of Candida species between a group of tobacco smokers and smokeless form of tobacco users  

Keywords: smokers, candida, Tongue, Oral swab, Hichrom candida differential medium.

Source of Funding

Nil

Financial Conflicts of Interest

Nil

How to cite this article : Maheswari Elumalai. (2023). Association Between Smoking and Smokeless from of Tobacco With candida Species in The Oral Cavity.: Original Article. International Journal of Orofacial Biology, 7(1), 6–18. https://doi.org/10.56501/intjorofacbiol.v7i1.744