Strong oral plaque microbiome signatures for dental implant diseases identified by strain-resolution metagenomics

NPJ Biofilms Microbiomes. 2020 Oct 30;6(1):47. doi: 10.1038/s41522-020-00155-7.

Abstract

Dental implants are installed in an increasing number of patients. Mucositis and peri-implantitis are common microbial-biofilm-associated diseases affecting the tissues that surround the dental implant and are a major medical and socioeconomic burden. By metagenomic sequencing of the plaque microbiome in different peri-implant health and disease conditions (113 samples from 72 individuals), we found microbial signatures for peri-implantitis and mucositis and defined the peri-implantitis-related complex (PiRC) composed by the 7 most discriminative bacteria. The peri-implantitis microbiome is site specific as contralateral healthy sites resembled more the microbiome of healthy implants, while mucositis was specifically enriched for Fusobacterium nucleatum acting as a keystone colonizer. Microbiome-based machine learning showed high diagnostic and prognostic power for peri-implant diseases and strain-level profiling identified a previously uncharacterized subspecies of F. nucleatum to be particularly associated with disease. Altogether, we associated the plaque microbiome with peri-implant diseases and identified microbial signatures of disease severity.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Bacteria / classification*
  • Bacteria / genetics
  • Bacteria / isolation & purification
  • Case-Control Studies
  • DNA, Bacterial / genetics*
  • Dental Implants / microbiology
  • Female
  • High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
  • Humans
  • Machine Learning
  • Male
  • Metagenomics / methods*
  • Middle Aged
  • Peri-Implantitis / microbiology*
  • Phylogeny
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA / methods*
  • Stomatitis / microbiology*

Substances

  • DNA, Bacterial
  • Dental Implants