Our understanding of oral microflora is rapidly growing and changing
under the impact of new molecular technology and advance genomics tools.
Undoubtedly one of the chief incentives for formulating sugar-free or
sugar-low products is to improve dental properties and diminish
carcinogenicity. The main opportunities for non-sugar sweeteners appear
to lie in the expanding range of foods and especially drinks now on the
market for adults, for whom the potential dental benefits are easy to
discern. The genomics study of Streptococcus with reference to their
interaction to sweeteners will unlock the mechanism of its infection and
will open up the new avenues of finding better way to cure the disease
and infection.