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        <issuerName>ORAGENICS INC</issuerName>
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            <rptOwnerName>KOSKI ROBERT C</rptOwnerName>
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            <rptOwnerName>KOSKI THOMAS L</rptOwnerName>
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    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Shares owned directly by Koski Family Limited Partnership (&quot;KFLP&quot;).  Shares owned indirectly by the KFLP general partners: Koski Management, Inc. (solely owned by Beverly Koski), Christine L. Koski, Robert C. Koski and Thomas L. Koski, each of whom is a general partner of the partnership or the controlling person of a corporate general partner of the partnership.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Each reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership of all indirectly owned securities in excess of such reporting person's pecuniary interest therein, and this report shall not be deemed an admission that the reporting person is the beneficial owner for purposes of Section 16 or any other purpose.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">Shares owned directly by Christine L. Koski.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F4">Shares owned directly by Robert C. Koski, a director of the Company.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F5">Shares owned directly by Thomas L. Koski.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F6">Shares owned indirectly by Beverly Koski (through Koski Management, Inc.).</footnote>
        <footnote id="F7">Shares owned by trusts for Mr. Robert Koski's children of which Mr. Robert C. Koski serves as trustee.  Such trusts are as follows:  the Robert Clayton Koski Trust for the benefit of Anthony James Hunter (107,600 shares); the Robert Clayton Koski Trust for the benefit of Hunter Buchanan Koski (107,600 shares); the Robert Clayton Koski Trust for the benefit of Clayton Ward Bennett (100,000 shares); the Robert Clayton Koski Trust for the benefit of Robert Edward Koski (107,600 shares); and the Robert Clayton Koski Trust for the benefit of Elyse Margaux Koski (108,051 shares).  Mr. Koski disclaims beneficial ownership of the shares held by the trusts except to the extent of any pecuniary interest.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F8">Represents an award of restricted stock in connection with service to the Company as director pursuant to the 2012 Equity Incentive Plan that vest equally over each of the four calendar quarters during 2017.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <remarks></remarks>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>/s/ Mark A. Catchur, as Attorney-in-Fact for CHRISTINE L. KOSKI, BEVERLY KOSKI, KOSKI FAMILY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, ROBERT C. KOSKI AND THOMAS L. KOSKI</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2017-02-13</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
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