Laboratory Exercises The Effect of Carbon Source and Fluoride Concentrations in the Streptococcus mutans Biofilm Formation

. The observationof different biofilm morphology as a function of carbon source and fluoride concentration allows aninteresting discussion regarding the metabolic pathways that lead to cavity development, about the role offluoride on this disease prevention, and also on the importance of biofilm formation to the cariogenicpotential of this bacterium, one of the main responsible for this multifatorial disease appearance. Onaddition to that, the low execution cost and the simple technical apparatus makes this experiment easy toperform.