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 Oral Health Initiative: A Program of the American Academy of Pediatrics
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Course Outline > Pathophysiology of Caries Process
Oral Flora

Normal oral flora = billions of bacteria.
Intraoral bacterial colonization occurs before the eruption of the first tooth.

A young boy eating a piece of fruit
  Both good and bad oral flora colonize the mouth soon after birth even before the first tooth erupts. Studies have demonstrated that cariogenic bacteria adhere to the intraoral mucosa prior to any tooth eruption.

 
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