Award-winning dental hygienist Claire-Louise Berry considers the core strategies for successfully marketing a ‘sexy’ oral ...

Enamel, the hardest and most mineralized substance in the body, covers the outer layer of each tooth. It's the first defense ...

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 ...

Most dental and oral diseases are due to an imbalance or overgrowth in these microbes within the plaque (or “biofilm”). Plaque gathers on the hard surfaces inside the mouth (your teeth), as ...

Plaque, a sticky biofilm that coats your teeth, can damage your teeth and gums. It is common for people to think that plaque, which begins to form on teeth within hours after eating, and tartar ...

These bacteria inhabit not only the surfaces of the teeth and gums in biofilm—a sticky, structured community that can be both beneficial and harmful—but also thrive in our saliva, contributing ...

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 ...