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...sured bysatomic force microscopy (AFM) (Thio and Meredith, 2008), and generallysinclude long-range, attractive Lifshitz-Van der Waals and electrostaticsforces as well as short-range hydrogen bonding (=-=Hermansson, 1999-=-).sLifshitz-Van der Waals and electrostatic forces are non-specific and operate instantaneously upon approach of the interacting surfaces. Hydrogensbonding, in contrast, requires stereo-chemistry betw...

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... disease, which can be initiated by dentalsbiofilm. The first event in dental biofilm formation is adhesion of oral bacteria to tooth surfaces (Liljemark and Bloomquist, 1996; Rosan and Lamont,s2000; =-=Islam et al., 2007-=-). Initial bacterial adhesion of both early and laterscolonizers is initially reversible, but over time, adhesion becomes more irreversible. Bond-strengthening in oral bacterial adhesion has been impl...