out of CO2, acids and alcohols, would any of these end products be capable of causing malodor under physiological pH?
I definately believe you that a Candida culture would smell, but would or candidiasis be capable of producing this same odor in vivo? I personally think this is a different think entirely. We only have to look back at the fairly recent disproval that anything apart from VSC were major contributors to oral malodor, due to their insufficient conentration and ability to be liberated from solution at physiological pH...cadaverine etc
Candida and halitosis is an example of correlation does not imply causation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlatio ... _causation
...and I think xerostomia is the indirect mechanism, since it could separately cause increase in VSC and Candidal overgrowth.
aydinmur wrote:Because of both Candidial biofilm or tongue coating is whitish, people estimated a relationship between tongue coating and Candida may be present. This is the most plausible scenario.
Candida assimilates carbohidrates.
CO2, acides, alcohols are end products.
If Candida had exactly caused halitosis, then every AIDS patients, cortizol cured patients would have hard halitosis.
I can say with my personal experiences, Candida cultures Usually smel like cheese, not very bad.
On the other hand, Fusobacteria, and other anaerobes' cultures have bad odor, intolerable!.
I think, Candida species dont directly cause bad odor, but perhaps indirect mechanisms may operate.
-M