Reduction of Anaerobes in Tongue Plaque through the Therapy of Physiological Oral Malodor　　

Kinya HIGUCHI（１）, Shun-ichi HONDA（２）
〔Purpose〕

Although the physiologic oral malodor is generally milder than the pathologic malodor, the patients

who suffer from the physiologic are bothered more seriously and privately than the other.

It is thought that the anaerobes activity in the tongue plague plays major role in the physiologic

malodor which the patients sense by themselves. And the reduction of oro-physiological function

leads to this raising of their activity. It has scarcely been reported how oral anaerobes vary their

activity before and after the therapy of oral malodor.We studied the quantitative change of anaerobe

activity before and after the therapy of physiologic oral malodor by measuring the BANA hydrolysis.