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Introduction Biotechnology II
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New theory of plaque and resistant bacteria
This continuing education course is a theory of dental plaque. There will be criticism as to the acceptance of tiny bacteria being classified as live organisms. For those critics, instead of bacteria, think of plaque bacteria as tiny protein particles. Throughout this course, the protein particles will be referred to as plaque bacteria or as resistant ultramicrobacteria.
Ultramicrobacteria are resistant bacteria that are high temperature resistant, toxic chemical resistant and have a very hard surface. They are virtually indestructible. The bacteria range in size from .05 micrometers to .2 micrometers. The smallest are the size of large virus and the largest are the size of microplasma bacteria. Their size give them three distinct advantages.
1. They do not need much food so they can stay alive for long periods of time in a hostile environment as blood.
2. They lack a defined cell wall so they can live undetected in blood from the body's immune system. The immune system identifies the defined cell wall of bacteria and destroys them. Lack of a cell wall makes them resistant to high temperatures. High temperatures creates enormous pressure inside a defined cell wall that results in bursting of the cell.
3. Antibiotics and other medicines attack protein enzymes to block protein energy transfer system of bacteria. Resistant bacteria are too small to have many protein enzymes leaving antibiotics no enzyme to attack. Most antibiotics are harmless to resistant bacteria.
The new theory of ultramicrobacteria is that they come from spores, change to adults, and return back to spores. The spores live in blood and other body fluids so they can get their food. The fluids move the bacteria to bump into food. Bacteria are basically lazy and hibernate for long periods of time. During hibernation, they reproduce slowly and spend time storing energy. When they become threatened, they form cell walls to protect them. Then, they increase reproduction and congegrate in colonies. The resistant bacteria that may form plaque form a cell wall of calcium compounds, then attach themselve to each other to form chains, followed by amassing in clusters to form a colony. The colony attract calcium compounds to encompass the whole colony. The result is an apatite crystal that is what is called plaque.
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Origin of resistant bacteria
Resistant bacteria could have come from outer space, including Mars. They came by way of meteorites and landed on Earth. They may have been washed by a great flood to all parts of the world. They are earliest forms of life and have survived millions of years because they know how to survive. For over the last 150 years, man has declared war on bacteria. Resistant bacteria have survived the war and may be fighting back by causing new diseases. Among which are the plaque forming diseases.
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Periodontal disease
Periodontal disease is a chronic disease that continues to grow. The reason may be that the true cause has never been identified. The culprit is a bacteria but an ultramicrobacteria. Olavi Kajander a Biochemist from Finland, led a research team that used cow serum that contained nanobacteria to produce calcium deposits in vitro. He used the same serum without nanobacteria and there were no calcium deposits. Kajander examined kidney stones from humans and in well over 90%, the stones showed nanobacteria. Kajander concluded that nanobacteria may be the cause of other diseases of calcium deposits in humans. Among the diseases is periodontal disease. The theory of nanobacteria and periodontal disease
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Prevention of Plaque and Periodontal disease
Plaque forming resistant bacteria are like rattlesnakes. They are hard to find and want to be left alone. They are harmless until they become threatened. Plaque bacteria have been around for a long time. They know how to survive. They remain incognito in a spore form. They become pathogens when there is a change in the condition of the environment.
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Pleomorphs are bacteria that can change shapes to become a different type of microorganism. Some believe that certain bacteria exist in the human body as colloids of life. The microorganisms starve themselves and shed their cell wall so that they can live symbiotically in their host. They resemble spores and mutate to other forms of bacteria. They balloon up and build cell walls as perhaps a defense system to the new environment. The new environment threatens their lives and they revert to a defense mode to fight for their survival. In the spore form, the colloids of life are harmless and may even be beneficial to human life.
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The new theory of plaque is based on the findings of Robert Folk and Olavi Kajander. In 1997, critics from the National Institute of Health questioned the validity of plaque bacteria. These critics duplicated the in vitro tests of Kajander and found different conclusions. Kajander found that precursers of plaque exist in blood. The critics found that the precursers not only are in blood but they are more abundant in saliva. The main controversy between Kajander and his critics seems to be if the precurser may be a living bacteria.
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