dental plaque

UBERON:0016482 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·CLOSE REVIEWED

A soft, thin film of food debris, mucin, and dead epithelial cells deposited on the teeth, providing the medium for the growth of various bacteria. The main inorganic components are calcium and phosphorus, with small amounts of magnesium, potassium, and sodium; the organic matrix consists of polysaccharides, proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, and other components. Plaque plays an important etiologic role in the development of dental caries and periodontal and gingival diseases and provides the base for the development of materia alba; calcified plaque forms dental calculus. — UBERON

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
BACDIVE	Plaque	106	STRAIN

Broader habitats

organism substance UBERON:0000463

Associated taxa

Taxa reported from this habitat, which is weaker than being characteristic of it. rank is out of pool: a high rank in a pool of thousands of near-tied scores is a weak claim. Entries corroborated by a second, independent source are listed first.

Taxa reported from this habitat
Taxon	Source	Rank	Pool
Streptococcus sanguinis `NCBITaxon:1305`	BACDIVE	1	58
Streptococcus anginosus `NCBITaxon:1328`	BACDIVE	2	58
Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans `NCBITaxon:714`	BACDIVE	3	58
Actinomyces denticolens `NCBITaxon:52767`	BACDIVE	4	58
Actinomyces slackii `NCBITaxon:52774`	BACDIVE	5	58
Streptococcus gordonii `NCBITaxon:1302`	BACDIVE	6	58
Streptococcus mitis `NCBITaxon:28037`	BACDIVE	7	58
Peptostreptococcus canis `NCBITaxon:1159213`	BACDIVE	8	58
Actinomyces naeslundii `NCBITaxon:1655`	BACDIVE	9	58
Bacteria `NCBITaxon:2`	BACDIVE	10	58
Actinomyces sp. `NCBITaxon:29317`	BACDIVE	11	58
Alloscardovia criceti `NCBITaxon:356828`	BACDIVE	12	58
Porphyromonas cangingivalis `NCBITaxon:36874`	BACDIVE	13	58
Streptococcus cristatus `NCBITaxon:45634`	BACDIVE	14	58
Actinomyces howellii `NCBITaxon:52771`	BACDIVE	15	58
Fusobacterium sp. `NCBITaxon:68766`	BACDIVE	16	58
Porphyromonas gulae `NCBITaxon:111105`	BACDIVE	17	58
Bifidobacterium tsurumiense DSM 17777 `NCBITaxon:1121112`	BACDIVE	18	58
Alloscardovia criceti DSM 17774 `NCBITaxon:1122228`	BACDIVE	19	58
Prevotella denticola DSM 20614 = JCM 13449 `NCBITaxon:1122982`	BACDIVE	20	58
Prevotella falsenii DSM 22864 = JCM 15124 `NCBITaxon:1122983`	BACDIVE	21	58
Streptococcus sobrinus DSM 20742 = ATCC 33478 `NCBITaxon:1123317`	BACDIVE	22	58
Mogibacterium diversum `NCBITaxon:114527`	BACDIVE	23	58
Veillonella rogosae JCM 15642 `NCBITaxon:1298595`	BACDIVE	24	58
Streptococcus cristatus AS 1.3089 `NCBITaxon:1302863`	BACDIVE	25	58

Also called

Plaque — BacDive
bacterial plaque — UBERON
plaque — UBERON

Curation

What a curator decided about this record, and why. A record built from several source concepts can carry one decision per concept.

REVIEW 2026-08-14 · claude-opus-5
Reviewed and endorsed the seeder's own resolution. Narrowed-grounding review (#67): flagged because 'dental' is a word the source did not say, but BacDive's only other plaque source is Subgingival-plaque and both are oral. Dental plaque is the right reading; correct as seeded. (source concept habitatmech:BACDIVE.7a79dc66cb)

Provenance

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