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 as a dental hygienist is to detect ...

Microplastics provide an excellent bacterial breeding ground that may be contributing to the growing problem of ...

(Photo Credit: Kingfisher Productions / Getty Images) Dental plaque is considered a biofilm, or a community of microorganisms that sticks to a surface. These microorganisms include bacteria and fungi.

These bacteria inhabit not only the surfaces of the teeth and gums in biofilm – a sticky, structured community that can be ...

Penn's Dental School and School of Engineering and Applied Science have worked together to create a new treatment option for apical periodontitis, a chronic dental infection that causes tooth loss and ...

bonyf NV / Key word (s): Product Launch/Patent bonyf recently secures its EU Patent, US patent pending, for PerioTabs® & PerioCream, launch in March 2025 at the IDS Cologne 13-March-2025 / 13:45 ...

Biology in the background These teeth scrape up food, typically algae in a biofilm and other microorganisms or plant tissues, off whatever surface the snail is traveling across. The shape of a snail’s ...

Biofilms allow bacteria and other pathogens ... Also called dermal denticles, these are structurally homologous with vertebrate teeth. An interesting aspect about evolution is that it seeks ...

While many surfaces can host biofilms — the plaque on your teeth is a biofilm — plastics appear to provide an especially strong bond that attracts the most prolific bacteria, according to the ...