What Happens when You Rinse?
1,644 views · Published 10 December 2018 · 0:11 · Indexed 27 October 2026
Channel: Cell Press · 2018 · Science & Technology
Have you ever wondered what your mouthwash is doing to the biofilms in your mouth? Oral bacteria in a biofilm, shown in pink, red and yellow, lose fluorescence as a commercially available mouthwash penetrates the biofilm clusters. Time-lapse laser scanning confocal imaging at 40x objective magnification. Video courtesy of Shoji Takenaka, Betsey Pitts, Phil Stewart, Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University. See more biofilm images in the Cell Picture Show: https://www.cell.com/pictureshow/biofilms
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