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However, phages that infect many oral bacteria remain undiscovered. Here, we discovered that dental wastewater harbors previously underexplored phage diversity. Viral particles concentrated from dental wastewater displayed diverse morphologies, including abundant filamentous phage-like particles. Deep long-read metagenomic sequencing of concentrated viral particles generated 7.4 billion bases of sequence data and yielded 255 medium- to high-quality viral operational taxonomic units (vOTUs), including 46 predicted complete genomes. Comparison with large phage databases revealed that 63 of these 255 vOTUs had no detectable match, indicating that extensive sequencing of dental wastewater substantially expands the number of potential bacteriophages associated with the human oral microbiome. 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