@thesis{thesis, author={Fanisa Desty Ramadhani}, title ={GAMBARAN Streptococcus mutans DAN Lactobacillus acidophilus PADA KASUS KARIES GIGI}, year={2020}, url={http://librepo.stikesnas.ac.id/268/}, abstract={In Indonesia, an infectious disease is a disease that often occurs both that infects external limbs, internal organs, and the oral cavity. Health problems that occur in Indonesia are increasing, especially in oral health, namely dental caries. Dental caries is an infectious disease that can be transmitted especially on hard tooth tissue resulting in local hard tissue damage. This study aims to determine the presence of Streptococcus mutans and Lactobacillus acidophilus found in dental caries cases and to determine the number of bacteria that is more dominant causing dental caries between Streptococcus mutans and Lactobacillus acidophilus. This type of research is a literature study, this study uses secondary data collection taken from scientific journals in previous studies. The data obtained were then analyzed using descriptive analysis. The results of the review of 55 samples, which is the total number of samples from the three research data, found that the average number of Streptococcus mutans colonies was 546,123 CFU / mL and Lactobacillus acidophilus was 117.2 CFU / mL in cases of dental caries} }