Table 3.

Main papers which used buccal devices for the study of in situ biofilm, classified by material.

Buccal devices	Acrylic devices		Leeds in situ device	Acrylic + Metal devices	Metal devices	Thermoplastic devices	IDODS
Author, year [references]	Nyvad and Fejerskov, 1987a Nyvad and Fejerskov, 1987b Nyvad and Kilian, 1987 Nyvad and Fejerskov, 1989 Hannig, 1997 Netuschil et al., 1998 Hannig, 1999a Hannig, 1999b Fine et al., 2000 Auschill et al., 2001 Auschill et al., 2002 Jentsch et al., 2002 Palmer et al., 2003 Scarano et al., 2003	Groessner-Schreiber et al., 2004 Diaz et al., 2006 Chalmers et al., 2007 Hannig et al., 2007b Scotti et al., 2007* Grossner-Schreiber et al., 2009 Sreenivasan et al., 2009 Azevedo et al., 2012 Rehman et al., 2012 Do Nascimento et al., 2013 Nascimento et al., 2014	Strassler et al., 1986 Robinson et al., 1997 Wood et al., 1999 Arai et al., 2000 Wood et al., 2000 Shore et al., 2001 Wood et al., 2002 Kato et al., 2004 Robinson et al., 2006 Dong et al., 2010 Kato et al., 2012 He et al., 2013	Rimondini et al., 1997 Zucchelli et al., 1998 Giertsen et al., 2000 Zucchelli et al., 2000 Arweiler et al., 2004 Auschill et al., 2004* Auschill et al., 2005 Al-Ahmad et al., 2007 Dige et al., 2007 Arweiler et al., 2008 Dige et al., 2009a Dige et al., 2009b Al-Ahmad et al., 2010a Al-Ahmad et al., 2010c von Ohle et al., 2010 Bremer et al., 2011 Al-Ahmad et al., 2013 Arweiler et al., 2014	Leonhardt et al., 1995 Simion et al., 1997	Sennhenn-Kirchner et al., 2007 Al-Ahmad et al., 2009 Sennhenn-Kirchner et al., 2009 Burgers et al., 2010 Gosau et al., 2010 Jung et al., 2010 Claro-Pereira et al., 2011 Brambilla et al., 2012 Gu et al., 2012 Rupf et al., 2012 Hannig et al., 2013a Hannig et al., 2013b Hannig et al., 2013c Kensche et al., 2013 Grychtol et al., 2014	García-Caballero et al., 2013 Tomás et al., 2013 Prada-López et al., 2015a Prada-López et al., 2015b Quintas et al., 2015a Quintas et al., 2015b

^*Palatal and Buccal devices were used. A Silicone device was used by Giordano et al. (2011).