New research shows that 'hacking' the communication channels between microbes in the mouth could boost levels of beneficial ...

Lactic-acid bacteria in plaque can cause caries, but in saliva these same bacteria appear to protect against human papillomavirus (HPV) and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), according to ...

Collaborating researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of North Carolina are highlighting the discovery of a bacterial species that they reported plays a major part in ...

Researchers at Umeå University have for the first time been able to show that individual variation in susceptibility to infection and bacterial flora together explain recurrent caries disease and that ...

Collaborating researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine and the Adams School of Dentistry and Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North ...

Large study in children reveals Selenomonas sputigena as a key partner of Streptococcus in cavity formation. Philadelphia -- Collaborating researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of ...

Cleaning teeth. Image by Tim Sandle. Cleaning teeth. Image by Tim Sandle. University of Pennsylvania microbiologists had long been pondering that another bacterial species was involved with tooth ...

Dental plaque is a complex microbial biofilm, not just food debris. The shift from oral health to disease is caused by changes in the balance of plaque’s microbial community, not just the presence of ...