Taxonomic information for the operational taxonomic units (OTUs) that disappeared from supragingival plaque microbiota after periodontal therapy.

The OTUs that were detected in pre-therapy samples with more than two reads but not in post-therapy samples were defined as “disappeared OTUs.”
Only the 20 OTUs that commonly disappeared from the supragingival plaque microbiota of more than six subjects after therapy are shown.