Background: Triclosan is a broad-spectrum antimicrobial agent used in toothpaste to reduce dental plaque, gingivitis and oral malodor. This community-level assessment evaluated the susceptibility of ...

To explore the ultrastructure of subgingival dental plaque using high-resolution field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) and to investigate whether extracellular DNA (eDNA) could be ...

TORONTO, ON (16 April, 2015) - Scraped from the gums, teeth and tongue in the form of plaque, the researchers behind Canada's first plaque bank are betting that the bacterial content of plaque will ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients with atherosclerosis, carotid arterial plaques may harbor bacterial biofilm deposits, which may, in ...

A new study from the ‘New England Journal of Medicine’ found that people with microplastics in their heart are at higher risk for heart attack, stroke, and death. For the study, the researchers in ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics might interact with the plaque that causes heart attacks and strokes. A new study found high levels of plastic in the arterial plaque of stroke and vision-loss patients.

Large numbers of bacteria were cultivable on media without triclosan from supragingival dental plaque samples taken from subjects using 0.3% triclosan, 2% copolymer, 0.243% sodium fluoride dentifrice ...