Enhance your care with oral microbiome testing

Oral Microbiome Testing provides you with root-cause oral & overall health insights. Increase patient engagement & retention while improving outcomes.

Bristle Health makes it effortless & low-cost to add salivary testing to your suite of services. Receive dedicated support & discounted pricing when you join our community.

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Used by leading functional dental practices

Guide your care with root-cause insights

Bristle is the first and only comprehensive salivary test to analyze the entire oral microbiome, including all 700+ unique species of beneficial and pathogenic bacteria found in the mouth.

Root-Cause Oral & Overall Health Insights:

Receive simple to understand scores for microbes related to tooth decay, gum inflammation, halitosis, gut inflammation and beneficial bacteria

Actionable Care Plans:

Each report includes personalized & prevention-focused diet, hygiene and product recommendations based on results

Monitor Progress:

Track patient progress in improving their oral microbiome health, and measuring the efficacy of treatment or therapy

Start Testing In Your Practice Today

Sign up for our Provider Partner Program and learn how to implement oral microbiome testing in your practice:

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Schedule your onboarding training with our team

Start testing with discounted pricing and ongoing support

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Better oral care. Based on biology.

Just like routine blood work, saliva testing is critical to understanding key risk factors for oral & overall health conditions and improving outcomes.

Differentiate and grow your practice

Be at the forefront of oral health & care by offering the most advanced test available.

Expand and personalize your care

Incorporate whole-body health insights and microbe-specific recommendations into your care.

Increase treatment acceptance & adherence

Provide objective, quantifiable data to your patients around their oral health. Build trust & get buy-in for the care they need.

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Hear from leading providers using Bristle

  • “Since adding Bristle testing to my practice and my Oral Microbiome Reset Program, I have seen tremendous results. Patients have more information and data, which can be very motivating, and we now have metrics to determine if our treatments and protocols are actually shifting things toward health and balance in their children. I am so excited to see where Oral Microbiome research is headed, and Bristle is certainly paving the way toward better patient outcomes and understanding root cause issues within our patients.

    Dr. Staci Whitman, DDS | Pediatric Dentist

    NoPo Kids Dentistry

  • “Bristle is the future of oral health care. With a simple noninvasive saliva test, we can assess patients' periodontal and caries risk rather than just waiting for bone loss and decay. Why wait for a heart attack or stroke to treat cardiovascular diseases if you see elevated biomarkers in blood tests? The same should be true in the future for dental care.”

    Dr. Jen Chiang, DDS | General Dentist

    Jennifer Chiang DDS

  • “Most of my patients are timid when talking about bad breath. The Bristle Oral Health Test has helped patients identify the underlying issue of their symptoms and devise treatment solutions that will work best for them.”

    Dr. Chris Strandburg, DDS | General Dentist

    Vision Dental

  • “If you make one investment in your health this entire year, let this be it. The mouth is the gateway to your body and oral bacteria have been associated with a higher risk for systemic conditions including Alzheimer’s, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and poor pregnancy outcomes. You can’t be healthy without a healthy mouth. And what you don't measure, you cannot manage.”

    Dr. Mark Burhenne, DDS | General and Family Dentist

Bristle Health is the most comprehensive test available

Price

Bacteria Detected

Fungi Detected

Conditions Reported

Analysis Method

Patient-Friendly Report

Recommendations

Bristle

$99 - $119

All 700+

6

Shotgun Metagenomic Sequencing

 At-home diet and hygiene + In-office care

HR5 Test

$65

5

0

qPCR

In-office care

OralDNA Labs

$235

14

3

qPCR

In-office care

How can you use Bristle?

Bristle empowers you with knowledge to level up care and drive better outcomes

Get an oral health baseline

The only test that provides a complete picture of oral health from a single saliva sample:

  • Gum inflammation

  • Tooth decay

  • Halitosis

  • Gut dysbiosis

  • Nitric oxide

  • Beneficial bacteria

Identify the root-cause of conditions

Identify and quantify all 700+ bacterial species in a sample to understand oral health using the most advanced sequencing technology available, shotgun metagenomics.

Develop personalized care plans

Our curated database provides a foundation you can use to design personalized diet, hygiene and product plans that complement in-office care.

Monitor and adapt over time

Monitor oral health over time with recurrent testing, measure the efficacy of treatments, and work with patients on changes to improve outcomes.

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Best in class technology

Backed by science

Our test was developed through research with the University of Pacific Dugoni School of Dentistry under an independent review board. Our science is backed by decades of research and over 200 scientific studies.

Clinical grade quality

Testing is performed in a U.S. CLIA-certified laboratory to ensure accuracy and validity of results.

Accessible & effective testing

Testing is as simple as spitting in a tube and mailing it back to our lab. Our report is patient-friendly with clear results and our pricing allows for recurrent testing to monitor over time & assess treatment efficacy.

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Good health starts with a healthy mouth

Join us in our mission to reinvent oral health: patient-first, prevention-focused and personalized.

Developed in collaboration with dental leaders

Dr. Mark Burhenne

Functional Dentist & Founder of Askthedentist.com

“If you make one investment in your health this entire year, let this be it. The mouth is the gateway to your body and oral bacteria have been associated with a higher risk for systemic conditions including Alzheimer’s, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and poor pregnancy outcomes.


You can’t be healthy without a healthy mouth. And what you don’t measure, you cannot manage.”

  • Dr. Mark Burhenne, DDS

    Functional Dentist | Founder of AsktheDentist.com

  • Kriston Reisnour RDH, BSDH, CCSH, CSOM, FAAOSH
    Dental Hygienist & Integrative Health Specialist

  • Dr. Jonathan Levine, DDS

    Prosthodontist, NYU Professor | Founder of GLO Science

  • Dr. Eric Pulver
    Oral Surgeon | Chief Dental Officer at Denti.Ai

  • Dr. Roshan Parikh, DDS

    General Dentist | President & CEO at Dntl Bar