In the article titled “Comparison of Oral Microbe Quantities from Tongue Samples and Subgingival Pockets” [1], there was an error in the Acknowledgments, which should be corrected as follows.

Acknowledgments

SHIP is part of the Community Medicine Research net (CMR) of the University of Greifswald, Germany, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research under Grant nos. ZZ9603, 01ZZ0103, and 01ZZ0701 and the Ministry of Cultural Affairs as well as the Social Ministry of the Federal State of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (http://www.community-medicine.de). Microbial analysis and André Göhler were supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research under Grant no. 03138010. The authors acknowledge support for the article processing charge from the DFG (German Research Foundation, 393148499) and the Open Access Publication Fund of the University of Greifswald. The authors acknowledge the SHIP data collection team, which comprises dental and medical examiners, technicians, interviewers, and assistants. The authors also thank Anne Kohler and Claudia Wiede for their technical assistance.