Mouth Microbes

Some of these sugar-loving microbes can turn sugar into matrix and acid. The acid destroys the surface of your teeth. The more sugar in your diet, the more fuel ...

Exploring the Mouth's Microbial Wonders

For over 65 years, NIDCR-supported scientists have explored the oral cavity to understand this microbial world.

4 Things Scientists Know About the Bacteria in Your Mouth

There are more than 700 different species of bacteria that can be found in the mouth, explains Tara Fourre, Principal Scientist, Global Oral Care and Wound ...

Oral Bacteria: What Lives In Your Mouth? - Colgate

Your mouth is home to 700 species of microorganisms or bacteria that live on your teeth, tongue, and even the pockets between your tooth and gum.

What Microorganisms Naturally Live in the Mouth? - News-Medical

Broadly these microorganisms belong to Streptococcus, Eubacteria, Fusobacterium, Capnocytophaga, Eubacteria, Staphylococcus, Eikenella, ...

The Types of Oral Bacteria Live in Your Mouth and What They Do

The two most common types of bacteria that cause cavities are Streptococcus mutans and Lactobacillus. Treponema denticola and Porphyromonas ...

The Mouth and the Microbes - Georgetown Today

“Mouth bacteria don't normally make it to the gut, because even though you swallow them, they get destroyed by the stomach acids. But some can ...

Different Types of Bacteria Present In the Mouth - Dr. Tiffany Shields

There are generally about 70 different types of bacteria, both good and bad, in the average person's mouth at any given time, most occur naturally and cause no ...

Oral microbiota: A new view of body health - ScienceDirect

Increasing evidence has shown that the oral microbiota is closely related to the physical state of humans, such as diabetes, obesity, and cancer.

The oral microbiome – an update for oral healthcare professionals

This article aims to give an update on our current knowledge of the oral microbiome in health and disease and to discuss implications for modern-day oral ...

How the Oral Microbiome is Connected to Overall Human Health

The millions of bacteria, fungi and viruses that live in our mouths have connections to Alzheimer's, obesity and more – yet have been grossly understudied, ...

The Oral Microbiome: Good vs. Bad Bacteria in Your Mouth - Listerine

Some of these oral bacteria can cause cavities, gingivitis and bad breath. But they're not all bad. Much of the bacteria in your mouth are actually good for you ...

How Many Bacteria are Secretly Living Inside Your Mouth?

For more context, consider that a person swallows about 1 liter (1,000 ml) of saliva each day. Given that researchers have found that 1 ml of ...

The bacteria in your mouth play an important role in your health

Some of the most common diseases caused by changes to your oral microbiome are tooth decay and gum disease. But growing evidence suggests that ...

Oral microbiota in human systematic diseases - Nature

Oral bacteria directly affect the disease status of dental caries and periodontal diseases. The dynamic oral microbiota cooperates with the ...

Bacteria in our mouths: how to improve oral health

It is estimated that there are an average of 100 million bacteria per millilitre of saliva in the oral cavity. There are up to 600 different species that vary ...

Oral microbiology - Wikipedia

Anaerobic bacteria in the oral cavity include: Actinomyces, Arachnia (Propionibacterium propionicus), Bacteroides, Bifidobacterium, Eubacterium, Fusobacterium, ...

Harvard researchers analyze bacteria in the human mouth

One group of researchers has taken a deeper look at one of the world's most compact and dense bacterial hot spots: the human mouth.

Mouth Flora - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

The term oral flora refers to organisms present in more than 1% of the total viable count in a particular site such as surface of the tongue or supragingival ...

5 Types of Bacteria We Find in the Mouth - YouTube

Have you ever wondered what kind of dangerous #bacteria or #parasites live in your mouth? There are more than you might think!