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Diversity of Oral Biofilms in Periodontal Health and Disease

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Our knowledge of the human microbiome is changing on an almost daily basis. Although the number of bacteria that colonize the human biome is still being debated [1], we now have evidence that areas in the human body that were normally considered sterile under conditions of health, for example, the placenta, joint cavities, and brain, do in fact contain bacteria [2, 3].

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Kumar, P.S. (2018). Diversity of Oral Biofilms in Periodontal Health and Disease. In: Bostanci, N., Belibasakis, G. (eds) Pathogenesis of Periodontal Diseases. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53737-5_2

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