Sugar-loving mouth bacteria create acids that damage teeth, but arginine can help fight back. In a clinical trial, ...

A new clinical study involving human participants shows that arginine, a naturally occurring amino acid, can change how dental plaque develops on teeth, helping to reduce the risk of tooth decay. When ...

New human clinical trial proves arginine, an amino acid, can modify plaque formation on teeth, thereby protecting ...

New human clinical trial proves arginine, an amino acid, can modify plaque formation on teeth, thereby protecting against dental caries. An interesting human trial by researchers from Aarhus ...

Researchers have found in a new study that organic refined, organic virgin, and extra virgin coconut oils, along with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two chemists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered the most naturally variable protein known to date in a bacterium that is a key player in the formation of dental plaque ...

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 ...

The bacterium Streptococcus mutans was first implicated in causing dental caries in 1924, when an English dentist named J. Kilian Clarke found this microorganism at the scene of a cavity and declared ...