Overview of KFORCE containing BLIS K12

Research from many microbiologists have shown that the cause of bad breath is due to anaerobic bacteria activity in the mouth. Thirty percent of sufferers of bad breath will go on to become chronic halitosis patients, unable to rid themselves of the bacteria that cause the problem.

The mouth is home to more than 10 million bacteria. Competition between these bacteria is fierce. To defend their territories bacteria fire powerful chemical weapons at one another. One of these weapons is a special protein called BLIS.

BLIS is an acronym for Bacteriocin Like Inhibitory Substances.

BLIS was discovered by Professor John Tagg and his team at the University of Otago. Professor Tagg says "BLIS is the term that we have applied to this smart weaponry that bacteria seem universally to apply, to deal with the competitors that they will encounter in nature" Basically BLIS acts as a natural antibiotic and inhibits the growth of undesirable bacteria.

Bacteria release clusters of these molecular missiles, which puncture holes in the surface of competing bacteria. Vital nutrients leak out and the cells starve to death. What Professor Tagg and his team have now discovered, is one particular bacteria called Streptococcus Salivarius K12 who's BLIS can help prevent bad breath, by inhibiting the growth of the bacteria that cause bad breath. S. salivarius K12 makes two types of BLIS proteins called Salivaricin A and Salivaricin B. This unique bacteria occurs in less than 1% of the population. Generally it occurs in the type of person who never gets sick and never has bad breath.

Recently published studies in the area on the use of bacterial interference as a means of preventing oral infections and bad breath lead the British Medical Journal to comment in it's August 2001 editorial "Bacterial interference is an increasingly attractive approach to prevention and therapy"

Professor Tagg has found a way to add this helpful bacteria to the ones already present in people's mouths. The BLIS producing bacteria are freeze dried and added to a mouthwash powder such as KFORCE Clean Mouthwash that is mixed with water. The best time to take the mouthwash powder is when there are as few bacteria in the mouth as possible. This happens after taking a strong antibacterial knockdown rinse such as KFORCE Catalyst or a Chlorhexidine Mouthwash. This leaves the way clear for the BLIS producing bacteria to establish themselves.

The antibacterial mouthwash is followed by the KFORCE Clean Mouthwash containing the BLIS producing bacteria.

Reducing bad breath bacteria will help to prevent the patient from developing halitosis and its embarrassing and cultural complications. So for millions of people the BLIS discovery will help to prevent bad breath and emotional suffering.