Operational taxonomic units (OTUs) present at >1% of total sequence reads in supra-gingival plaque isolated 24 hour and 48 hours post de-scale and polish.

Cut-offs of 98.5% were applied for identity and coverage (alignment length divided by query length) for annotation to species level, if the alignment did not meet the cut-off criteria the best hit from the Silva database was chosen (indicated by *).Operational taxonomic units (OTUs) present at >1% of total sequence reads in supra-gingival plaque isolated 24 hour and 48 hours post de-scale and polish.