Controversy: A mixed-bacteria ecological approach to understanding the role of the oral bacteria in dental caries causation: An alternative to Streptococcus mutans and the specific-plaque hypothesis

Critical Reviews in Oral Biology and Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 108-125

  Kleinberg, I ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alkali formation; Dental caries causation; Dental plaque pH; Mixed bacteria metabolism; Streptococcus mutans specificity

Indexed keywords

ACID BASE BALANCE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; DENTAL CARIES; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS; MOUTH FLORA; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TOOTH PLAQUE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENZYMOLOGY; GLYCOLYSIS; LACTOBACILLUS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SALIVA; TOOTH DISEASE;

CARIOGENIC AGENT; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMALS; CARIOGENIC AGENTS; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL PLAQUE; ECOSYSTEM; GLYCOLYSIS; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LACTOBACILLUS; SALIVA; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TOOTH DEMINERALIZATION;

EID: 1842867893     PISSN: 10454411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/154411130201300202     Document Type: Review

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