<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/1.0/JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd">
<!--<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="article.xsl"?>-->
<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.0" xml:lang="en"
    xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
    <front>
        <journal-meta>
            <journal-id journal-id-type="issn">0973-7510</journal-id>
            <journal-title-group>
                <journal-title>Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology</journal-title>
            </journal-title-group>
            <issn pub-type="epub">2581-690X</issn>
            <publisher>
                <publisher-name>DR. M.N. Khan</publisher-name>
            </publisher>
        </journal-meta>
        <article-meta>
            <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22207/JPAM.12.2.39</article-id>
            <title-group>
                <article-title>The Influence of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles Incorporation into Soft Denture Lining Material on Candida albicans Adherence and Some Mechanical and Physical Properties</article-title>
            </title-group>
            <contrib-group>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Qasim Ahmed</surname>
                        <given-names>Amal</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/>
                </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Mohammed Ali</surname>
                        <given-names>Mohammed Moudhaffar</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/>
                </contrib>

                		
            </contrib-group>
			
			
            <aff id="aff-1">Department of Prosthetic Dentistry, College of Dentistry, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq.</aff>
	 
			
			
            <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2018-06-30">
                <day>30</day>
                <month>06</month>
                <year>2018</year>
            </pub-date>
            <volume>12</volume>
            <issue>2</issue>
            <fpage>783</fpage>
            <lpage>791</lpage>
            <permissions>
                <copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 2018 The Author(s)</copyright-statement>
                <copyright-year>2018</copyright-year>
                <license license-type="open-access"
                    xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
                    <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.<uri 
					xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
                            >https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</uri></license-p>
                </license>
            </permissions>
            <self-uri xlink:href="https://www.microbiologyjournal.org/the-influence-of-titanium-dioxide-nanoparticles-incorporation-into-soft-denture-lining-material-on-candida-albicans-adherence-and-some-mechanical-and-physical-properties/"/>
            <abstract>
                <p>This study aimed to assess the effect of titanium nanoparticles (TiNPS) addition into
soft denture lining material on Candida albicans (C. albicans) adherence ability, hardness, shear
bond strength and spectrophotometer color absorption of the lining material. TiNPS with 2%
concentration by weight( according to the pilot study) were added into acrylic-based heat cured
soft denture liner. One hundred and twenty different specimens were prepared and divided
into four groups according to the test to be performed. The ability of C. albicans to adhere on
the soft liner/ TiNPS composite was evaluated in three different periods, also hardness, shear
bond strength and light absorption by liner material were measured, the results showed there
were significant decrease in adhered Candida cells number on the surface of the experimental
specimens in comparison with the control specimens in each incubation period, and significant
decrease in the hardness of the experimental specimens. The strength of the shear bond between
the soft liner and the acrylic denture base showed non-significant difference but a significant
increase in light absorption percentage was observed in all experimental specimens. Thus it
can be concluded that the addition of TiNPS can provide soft liner material with antifungal
properties, reduced hardness and unaffected shear bond strength with increased opacity of
the liner material.
		</p>
		</abstract>
		<kwd-group>
        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>soft denture liner</kwd>
        <kwd>Candida albicans</kwd>
			<kwd>titanium nanoparticles</kwd>
			</kwd-group>
        </article-meta>
    </front>
    </article>
