States of oral health and disease reflect the compositional and functional capacities of, as
well as the interspecies interactions within, the oral microbiota. The oral cavity exists as a …

The emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest challenges in public
health. There is an urgent need to discover novel agents against the occurrence of multidrug …

Fermented foods identify cultures and civilizations. History, climate and the particulars of
local production of raw materials have urged humanity to exploit various pathways of …

Biofilms are surface-attached bacterial communities embedded within an extracellular matrix
that create localized and protected microenvironments. Acidogenic oral biofilms can …

Oral diseases are among the most common diseases around the world that people usually
suffer from during their lifetime. Tooth decay is a multifactorial disease, and the composition …

The consumption of green tea (C amellia sinensis) has been shown to have many
physiological and pharmacological health benefits. In the past two decades several studies …

Dental caries in very young children may be severe, result in serious infection, and require
general anesthesia for treatment. Dental caries results from a shift within the biofilm …

Early childhood caries (ECC) is a term used to describe dental caries in children aged 6
years or younger. Oral streptococci, such as Streptococcus mutans and Streptococcus …

Virulent biofilms are responsible for a range of infections, including oral diseases. All
biofilms harbor a microbial-derived extracellular-matrix. The exopolysaccharides (EPS) …

Although Streptococcus mutans has been implicated as a major etiological agent of dental
caries, our cross-sectional preliminary study indicated that 10% of subjects with rampant …