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Oral bacterial metabolism is not only important for one species growth and development but important for the entire biofilm as well. For example, Streptococci spp. which is the most prevalent bacteria in the mouth ferments carbohydrates which produce lactic acid.
In general, the oral microbiome is diverse, and oral wash samples (surrogates for the oral flora) from 20 healthy subjects analyzed using high-throughput methods revealed the presence of 5 major phyla (Firmicutes, Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Actinobacteria, and Fusobacteria) and that Streptococcus, Veillonella, Leptotrichia, Prevotella, and Haemophilus genera were the most abundant.