It's harder to do than that. Spirochetes are hard enough to see when they are alive. You have to have a phase contrast microscope to see them. . . they are almost transparent to begin with. They they look like long wires in a spiral. When alive, the are spotted because they move rapidly.
Take a look at the videos in the first post I made above.
But, yes, that is exactly what they find. . . along with a lot of other crud.
Okay, interesting.
I’m not sure what to make of this. On the one hand, those videos of the spirochetes in plaque are pretty disgusting and it’s alarming just how many of them there are. On the other hand, in an environment like the mouth it would be pretty amazing if it weren’t bacteria central. I wonder if trying to kill them off wouldn’t be a little like trying to kill off your intestinal flora. Is it possible a better approach would be to encourage a healthy mouth flora rather than try to wipe it out? In the people who don’t have the spirochetes, do they have no bacteria at all or is it that their mouths are populated with other kinds of bacteria (besides spirochetes)?