The oral microbiome is a complex ecosystem with billions of bacteria, and tooth decay is not solely caused by sugar feeding a single type of bacteria.

“because the one there's in the mouth you know since 2008 we know that there are billions upon billions of bacteria living in the mouth and this one set of or you know a couple of set of um microbes that we find that cause decay you know it's a whole ecosystem that has gone out and so it's a very superficial way to kind of look at you know sugar causes cavities because of this one set of bacteria”