Figure 4.
Nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) plots of denture-associated stomatitis (DS) versus non-DS (NoDS) groups. NMDS ordination technique analysis of samples within DS and NoDS groups for each sample site to identify distinct clusters of groupings. (A) Denture-fitting surface, (B) palatal mucosa surface and (C) tongue. Overlapping groupings of samples were observed, thus the overall bacterial microbiota were not distinct.