Oral care tablet containing kiwifruit powder affects tongue coating microbiome

• Main Authors: Makoto Fukui (Author), Hiroki Asakuma (Author), Hiroko Horiuchi (Author), Hiroshi Takii (Author), Masami Yoshioka (Author), Daisuke Hinode (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wiley, 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Objectives Tongue coating, a kind of biofilm formed on the tongue dorsum, is the cause of various clinical conditions, such as oral halitosis and periodontal diseases, because Fusobacterium nucleatum acts as a bridge between other oral bacteria and periodontopathogenic bacteria in biofilm f...