Taste your way to oral Health! | Episode 2

Reference List

• Gingival tissues AND 2010 paper Wendal investigated bitter tasters and cavities
  
• Korean study of 3500 ppl found that non-tasters actually consumed more fruit and had higher BMI/Bodyweight than super tasters (exact opposite of their assumptions) 
  
• Gingival tissue and Taste
  
• Oral Microbes and Taste
• S mutans saves us from S aureus
  
• Bitter receptors and oral health
  
• Bitter Asthma 
• Bitter Treatment Asthma
• Taste and Immunity
• P. aeruginosa and Taste
• Taste genes and gut microbes
• Taste receptors in microbial sensing
• T2Rs P. aeruginosa (Hariri et al, 2017; Freund et al, 2018)
• Bitter taste metabolites from bugs can activate T2Rs Gopallawa et al, 2021
• T1R2/3s by sugars or bacterial amino acids can inhibit T2R-dependent signaling (Lee et al, 2017)
• A mouse study showed all interventions regulated a bitter receptor
• Oral hygiene products. CXH seems to disrupt the system
  
• study mouthwash (2x/day) prediabetic to diabetic.
  
• Antiseptic mouthwash review
• Covid and Taste: Nontasters look out!
• regular hygiene habits increases taste perception 2021
• sugar intake and oral microbiota composition 2020