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WAY back in around 5,000BC the urban myth of the tooth worm was spawned.

BACTERIA have been demonised over the years for causing disease.

IN 1871, new medical students at King’s College Hospital were warned by Sir Thomas Watson in his introductory lecture: "A patient would think you careless or ignorant of your craft if you did not, at every visit, look at his tongue as well as feel his pulse.

LAST week my 11-year-old son said to me, "mum, when am I getting my first filling? All my friends have one!" Cue dentist mum head-flick, jaw-drop and "huh?!" squawk sound response.

JUST like the human species has evolved over the past six million years, so have the bacteria in our body, adapting to vastly different conditions on our skin and in our mouths, noses, genitalia and guts.

WITH more and more people on the quest for perfect abs so the consumption of protein shakes and bars has risen in tandem.