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Surface Properties of Dental Materials and Biofilm Formation

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Bacterial adhesion to biological tissues of the oral cavity or artificial dental materials and the subsequent formation of complex biofilms are responsible for major dental pathologies such as caries, periodontitis, peri-implantitis, denture stomatitis, and candidiasis [1]. The first and essential step in biofilm formation is the initial attachment of single microbes to a substratum, where they have to interact with the available physicochemical surface conditions in order to remain and multiply [2, 3]. As a matter of principle, bacteria exist naturally within structured communities growing as biofilms and sufficient bacterial adhesion in the oral cavity is therefore the only way to survive for most bacteria in the long run [2, 4].

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Bürgers, R., Krohn, S., Wassmann, T. (2021). Surface Properties of Dental Materials and Biofilm Formation. In: Ionescu, A.C., Hahnel, S. (eds) Oral Biofilms and Modern Dental Materials . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67388-8_5

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