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> Consider if you removed all the wings on misquotes in a city. That's not an accurate analogy for biofilms. Even if it was, I noted below that the mechanical
by arrosenberg 4y ago
> Consider if you removed all the wings on misquotes in a city.
That's not an accurate analogy for biofilms. Even if it was, I noted below that the mechanical action of brushing your teeth annihilates any biofilm (i.e. plaque) that has built up. That being the case, how do you explain the fact that people who brush their teeth are not suffering from infection from advantageous disease?
If you wipe out your gut flora, there are health serious implications. All evidence seems to point to the opposite case in your mouth.
- Retric 4y agoI think you may have confused me with the other poster: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32007812 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32007812 Anyway brushing your teeth doesn't sterilize your mouth or even disrupt your mouth flora that much. But brushing and flossing does do many things. It helps your spit/toothpaste to remineralize your teeth repairing microscopic damage, removes leftover buts of food, and generally makes your mouth noticeably less hospitable to bacteria alongside reducing biofilms. As soon as you stop bushing things start getting worse, but that's why it's a daily activity.
- arrosenberg 4y agoI'm not confusing you for anyone - I explicitly said I was making the same point. You are arguing that genetically modifying mouth bacteria to not-form biofilms could be detrimental to health, and I pointing out that if that was true, we would already see those affects from daily brushing. You seem to agree that brushing removes biofilms, so I guess I don't understand your original hypothesis.
- Retric 4y ago> modifying mouth bacteria to not-form biofilms could be detrimental to health I said it would be detrimental to the bacteria’s health not the persons. Not brushing would be bad for a persons health, and this would still be true after treatment with modified bacteria.