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abstract

  • © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Microorganisms have successfully colonized different environments all over the planet: water, soil, as well as the inside and outside of other living organisms. Over millions of years, these microorganisms have multiplied, by adapting and evolving to the natural and modified environments. Nevertheless, their major achievement depends on their capacity of forming complex biostructures called "biofilms" which allow them to gain and conquer territories and survive under adverse conditions, depredation, toxins, and toxic gas diffusion. The establishment of a microbial community may be related to the development of infections, diseases, and physiological complications in the host. During the generation of an oral biofilm, different microbial species participate, collaborating directly or indirectly in their formation. Biofilms are also formed in the microenvironment of the oral cavity and house hundreds of bacterial, fungal, and yeast species. The molecular interrelationships, chemical communications through signals, the energetic dependence, the nutritional potential and the biostructural stability that is generated in the biofilms are the sustenance for the species that compose them. This chapter discusses microbial biofilms structure, molecular interaction, and development in the oral cavity.

publication date

  • October 9, 2019