Successful coating of an allergenic acrylate-based dental prosthesis

image Most dental prostheses are currently made of acrylate compounds. Therefore, patients sensitized to acrylate compounds may have difficulties in finding prostheses. image A patient with allergic prosthesisinduced stomatitis who was able to use the prosthesis after her allergenic acrylate-based dental prosthesis had been coated with a UV light—cured acrylate lacquer is reported. image The patient was patch tested with the standard series, the dental screening series, the (meth)acrylate series, the plastics and glues series, and commercial prosthesis materials. Patch testing was performed with a 48-hour occlusion time and readings after 2 days and 3 or 4 days. image On patch testing, the patient had allergic patch test reactions to methyl methacrylate (MMA), 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate, 1, 4-butanedioldiacrylate, and ethylene glycol dimethacrylate. Her prosthesis was then coated using a UV light—cured acrylate lacquer containing MMA, and she could wear the prosthesis without adverse side effects. image Evidently, the surface of the UV light—cured, acrylate-based prosthesis polymerized so completely that residual MMA caused no clinical symptoms. UV light—cured coating of allergenic acrylate prostheses is recommended for patients with allergic problems from acrylate compounds.