The Role Of Microorganisms In The Development Of Caries

Abstract

According to the World Health Organization, half of the world's population is infected with caries. In 2021, the population of the United States spent $162 billion on dental care, and this amount is increasing every year. Dental caries is a noninfectious but preventable and treatable disease and the cause of its occurrence and development. Streptococcus, Lactobacillus, Actinomyces and Candida generation and the cariogenic properties of microorganisms present in the oral cavity have been studied extensively, but which of the microorganisms found in caries are cariogenic, the mechanism of caries formation, and the specific blocking of GTF enzymes are not understood. Therefore, conducting new research on the importance of microorganisms in caries and organizing existing data are important problems facing modern science. It is a sad situation that dental caries is widespread in developing countries in the form of early childhood caries in young children. In this article, we will try to collect information about caries and ECC microorganisms from the NCBI, Scopus and Google Scholar databases.