Ecological Approaches to Oral Biofilms: Control without Killing
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Control of oral biofilms.
Oral biofilms play a major role in the etiology of oral diseases, and have broad implications for quality of life, systemic health and economic costs. Hypotheses regarding the mechanisms by which oral biofilms exert their pathogenic potential have evolved over time. Early theories in which oral diseases were associated solely with the quantity of colonizing biofilms have been replaced by the un...
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عنوان ژورنال: Caries Research
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0008-6568,1421-976X
DOI: 10.1159/000377732