FIG. 3.

Mean levels of health-associated species or species groups in permanent teeth determined by a reverse-capture checkerboard assay for 36 subjects with caries (green bars) and 25 healthy controls (white bars). *, P ≤ 0.05 for pairwise comparisons of the healthy group to other groups by PROC MIXED. P indicates the overall P value comparing all groups and sites by PROC MIXED. Strep., Streptococcus; Eubact., Eubacterium; Eubact. sabur., Eubacterium saburreum; Capnocyto., Capnocytophaga; Fusobact. nuc. ss poly., Fusobacterium nucleatum subsp. polymorphum; Actino, Actinomyces; cl., clone.