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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Oral Biol. 2009 Feb 27;54(6):588–594. doi: 10.1016/j.archoralbio.2009.01.016

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Conditioning acrylic with saliva promotes C. albicans biofilm growth. Biofilms were developed on acrylic with or without saliva conditioning prior to inoculation with C. albicans (106 cells/ml). After 72 h of biofilm growth, cells were removed and quantified with phase-contrast microscopy. Acrylic conditioned with saliva had a significantly higher mean cell number (3.5 ± 0.3 × 107) compared to non-conditioned disks (3.0 ± 0.4 × 106) (p = 0.0097).