Oral Bacteria

Oral bacteria include a variety of organisms.  Some are neutral and/or helpful to our bodies, but many are parasitic, meaning they feed off of bone and gum tissue, thus being destructive to our oral environment.  A single destructive bacillus has no chance of harming your oral health, nor do millions of them, for that matter – they are way too small and we are way too big.  However, as their unimpeded growth progresses in periodontal pockets, a process known as “quorum sensing” occurs which, when there are enough potentially destructive bacterium of a particular strain present, they all simultaneously attack the host, meaning us. 

The result of such attacks is the destruction of gum and bone tissue which support the teeth. 

Periogen does not kill these bacteria outright, but disrupts their communication ability, quorum sensing, so destructive attacks do not occur.

Most significantly, Periogen dissolves the tartar where these destructive bacteria live and multiply.