Daily biofilm control and oral health: consensus on the epidemiological challenge - Latin American Advisory Panel

• Main Authors: Sigmar de Mello Rode (Author), Xiomara Gimenez (Author), Victoria Criado Montoya (Author), Mariel Gómez (Author), Silvia Lopez de Blanc (Author), Marco Medina (Author), Elmer Salinas (Author), Janeth Pedroza (Author), Rosi Maria Zaldivar-Chiapa (Author), Claudio Mendes Pannuti (Author), José Roberto Cortelli (Author), Rui Vicente Oppermann (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa Odontológica, 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Our understanding of dental plaque biofilm has evolved since the nonspecific plaque hypothesis that considered plaque as a nonspecific mass of native microorganisms that, because of lack of oral hygiene, builds up in proportions great enough to overcome the host resistance threshold and affect the t...