Mar 04 2009
An Oral Ecosystem
That big, moist hole in your face — it’s an ecosystem thriving with life. Every time you swallow: death. Each time you brush and/or gargle: a mass slaughter.
Thanks to a new scientific finding we now know that a person’s mouth is home to over 600 different species of microbiotic life. And one dark, toothed cavern grows different things than every other.
What kind of guests do you have partying in your pie-hole right now?
The mouth is an “oral microbiome.” And rather than a river running through it, there is food and beverage running through it. And, oh yah, a lot of spit/saliva. It is via spit samples that the scientists made the discovery about the global diversity in the human oral microbiome.
Speaking of saliva, rather than kissing and potentially swapping spit, maybe we should all switch to rubbing noses.
