Dental Plaque as a Microbial Biofilm

By P. Marsh. Caries Research, 2004

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Effect of material characteristics and/or surface topography on biofilm development. (2006, background): “Ad- vanced technologies recently provided novel insights into how dental plaque functions as a biofilm (Marsh 2004).”
Communication in bacteria: an ecological and evolutionary perspective (2006, background): “These communities form temporal and spatial arrangements of different bacteri”
Biofilm Dispersal: Mechanisms, Clinical Implications, and Potential Therapeutic Uses (2010, background): “…which can be comprised of hundreds of bacterial species, colonization of tooth surfaces follows an ordered progression, with initial adhesion of early ‘pioneer’ species to the enamel surface followed by attachment of latercolonizing species to the already-attached early colonizers (Marsh, 2004).”