What Really Causes Cavities?
Hate going to the dentist? Keep the millions of microbes in your mouth happy.
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More Microbe Week videos! (Click "show more" for links)
BrainCraft: Good Sleep = Good Gut? https://youtu.be/jkjqQXX47KE
Gross Science: What Really Causes Cavities? https://youtu.be/WU05zZJKSdE
AMNH: Microbes of New York https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTdeZU_8cLI
Science Friday: Your Very Special Bacterial Cloud https://youtu.be/2_ib7Z4bmrg
Inspired by the Secret World Inside You exhibition http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/the-secret-world-inside-you
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Welcome to the Microbiome, by Susan Perkins and Rob DeSalle : http://amzn.to/1PtAi3u
Kissing and the microbiome: http://bit.ly/1PNCkFH
More on thrush from the CDC: http://1.usa.gov/1KyxNp2
PDF: Role of the Oral Microflora in Health: http://bit.ly/1nueqsB
The Role of Bacteria in the Caries Process: http://bit.ly/1PNDPDQ
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Host, Writer, Animator, Editor
Anna Rothschild
Camera, Sound
Katherine Hashimoto
Many thanks to Drs. Susan Perkins, Rob DeSalle, and Anne Tanner
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Original Footage
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Footage and Images
Dental Plaque, SEM
Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library
Dental Plaque Bacteria in Phase Microscope 600X Blue Filter
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Lovers Kissing Romantic Romantic Beautiful Kissing Teens Couple in Hd
Pond5/TH_Producties
Elderly Couple
Pond5/Fotoluminate
Dental Plaque From Human Sample 800Z Microscope
Pond5/jamesbenet
Devan
Flickr/Seth Lemmons
Candida albicans 2
Wikimedia Commons/GrahamColm
Decayed wisdom tooth
Wikimedia Commons/ProjectManhattan
Dental cavity1
Wikimedia Commons/Digantatalukdar
Digital cavity2
Wikimedia Commons/Digantatalukdar
Double big gulp
Wikimedia Commons/Russell Bernice from New York City, USA
Plaque Disclosing Tablets
Wikimedia Commons/Themolarbear
File: Sugar Cubes (7164573186)
Wikimedia Commons/david pacey from LEEDS, West yorkshire
File: The Dental cosmos (1912) (14769050452)
Wikimedia Commons/White, J.D. McQuillen, J.H. (John Hugh), 1826-1879. Ziegler, George Jacob, 1821-1895. White, James William, 1826-1891. Kirk, Edward C. (Edward Cameron), 1856-1933. Anthony, L. Pierce (Lovick Pierce), b. 1877.
File: Phagocytose Entamoeba gingivalis-PMN
Wikimedia Commons/Mark Bonner dmd, Institut International de Parodontie, www. parodontite.com
Oral thrush. Aphthae. Candida albicans.
CDC
SFX
Dun dun dun
Freesound/Simon_Lacelle
Squeak Pack/squeak_10
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Jelly/Jelly Mangling on Plate
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Bubbles Popping
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