An army of tiny robots scuttling about inside your mouth cleaning your teeth. It's a disquieting thought, and yet it might be one of the most effective ways to deal with the sticky bacterial biofilms ...

The truth about oral biofilm is that it still remains very much a mystery to healthcare professionals. As dental hygienists, we live biofilm, we breath it, we scrape it, and when we stop and think ...

The oral cavity creates more biofilm during the day than at night, according to a study in Acta Odontologica Scandinavica (December 2012, Vol. 70:6, pp. 441-447). Most previous studies of accumulation ...

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 ...

An interdisciplinary research team have developed microscopic robotic cleaning crew that can precisely and non-invasively remove plaque buildup. The robotic system has two types of functions: one that ...

Now, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Dental Medicine have figured out that S. mutans has a powerful helper known as Selenomonas sputigena. It turns out that in forming its biofilm ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Faye Donald: Today, I'm going to show you how guided biofilm therapy, or GBT, works when we professionally clean a patient's mouth from start to finish. My job ...

It seems like more commercials about oral hygiene products are talking about biofilm. So, what is dental biofilm? Dental biofilm is the beginning stage of forming dental plaque. It is natural to have ...

The combination of a carb-heavy diet and poor oral hygiene can leave children with early childhood caries (ECC), a severe form of dental decay that can have a lasting impact on their oral and overall ...

The National Institutes of Health has awarded Eastman Dental Center's Hyun (Michel) Koo, D.D.S, Ph.D., $1.6 million to continue his work on preventing dental caries, the single most prevalent and ...