“…Since the pellicle material harvested from human teeth is scarce, several studies have been performed through the incubation of whole saliva with HA powder [6, 15, 19 -23] or HA plaques [24,25] in vitro conditions. Pertaining to in vivo studies, several strategies have been used to obtain AEP namely: scraping the buc-cal surfaces with coromant scaler [18,26]; rubbing each teeth surface with sponges containing SDS solution [6]; using Durapore membrane filters [15, 27 -29]; fixing bovine enamel on the teeth surface [30 -32] and more recently using a dry collection strip (electrode wick paper filter) [33]. Identification of AEP protein components has been carried out by different technical approaches showing the presence of acidic PRPs [5,6,29,34] statherin, histatins, amylase, carbonic anhydrase VI, lactoferrin, mucins (MG1 and MG2), lysozyme and cystatins [6,28,29,31,32,34,35].…”