The lifelong consequences of oral flora imbalance - Prof John Thomas

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This publication is a summary of a recent presentation by Professor John G Thomas, former Director of the
Biofilm Research Laboratory for Translational Studies in Medicine, Dentistry and Industry at West Virginia
University, USA. He spoke to dentists, dental hygienists, oral health therapists, special needs dentists and
dental therapists in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne during October 2012. The key focus of the presentation
was to encourage health professionals to recognise that we are all walking microbial organisms living in a
microbial world and how an individual’s oral flora may define potential risk of disease. Professor Thomas
stressed that clinicians must be a partner to the microbial world that is their patient.