Bacterial Adherence in Oral Microbial Ecology

INFLUENCE OF BACTERIAL ADHERENCE ON COLONIZATION 7 Bacterial Affinity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . •. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Bacterial Numbers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Events and Bacterial Surface ComjJonents Involved in Adherence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 DENTAL PLAQUE FORMATION 11 Gross Observations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _. . . . . . . . 11 Adhesive Interactions Permitting Bacterial Accumulations on Teeth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Role of bacterial polymers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Role of salivary polymers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Role of direct interspecies interactions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 BACTERIAL COLONIZATION IN RETENTIVE AREAS 14 ROLE OF BACTERIAL ADHERENCE IN OTHER HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS 15 CLEARANCE OF BACTERIA FROM THE MOUTH 16 Salivary Antibodies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Salivary Glycoproteins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19