Is the bacteria in your mouth good or bad?!


Question: doing a science lab...
if u can add any other info about the bacteria in your mouth, please do =D


Answers: doing a science lab...
if u can add any other info about the bacteria in your mouth, please do =D

well the bacteria in your mouth shouldn't be there at all for the most part... Saliva contains the enzyme lysozyme... this enzyme breaks the bonds between NAG and NAM of the peptidogylcan in bacterial cells... probably a little to indepth... but regardless saliva kills most of the bacteria entering through your mouth... Hence, when your sleeping you are generally stationary and bacteria attach to the sugar remaining on your teeth (bacteria looove the glucose, it allows them to colonize and grow). This is why you have bad breath in the morning! Other than that... I don't really have much to say on the topic...any ingested bacteria becomes part of the normal flora in your body. THIS is important! Gram negative bacterial cells (good bacteria if you will, for the most part) attach to your epithelial cells lining your body and don't allow for one bacteria, especially a bad one (gram negative) to prodominate or grow on your epithelial cells. Hence, when people take to many antibiotics they kill all the bacteria and it causes a super infection. One bacteria will dominate and if it's a severe one like bacillus difficile (eesh on the spelling) it can be very very severe... okay I've gotten off topic but I hope something I rambled helps... cheers

Bad. It causes gingivitis and bad breath (yuck!)

Check out this website

http://www.diabetes.org/type-2-diabetes/...

THERE ARE MORE THAN 300 DIFFERENT TYPES, SOME ARE GOOD, SOME BAD.





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