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Dental Plaque Dental plaque is a soft, translucent and tenaciously adherent material which consists of a gelatinous mass of bacteria accumulating on the surface of teeth. The plaque bacteria metabolize refined carbohydrates for energy and produce organic acids as a by-product. The acids produced may then cause a carious lesion by dissolution of the tooth's crystalline structure. It is more accurately described as bacterial plaque because it is composed almost completely of bacteria and their by-products. Plaque is neither adherent food debris, as is widely and erroneously thought, nor does it result from the haphazard collection of opportunistic microorganisms. The accumulation of plaque on teeth is a highly organized and ordered sequence of events.
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