Mouthwash

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Mouthwash

Mouthwash, also known as oral rinse, is a liquid product used to rinse your mouth, generally to help clean it and reduce oral plaque and oral bacteria. It often contains ingredients such as fluoride, chlorhexidine, cetylpyridinium chloride, essential oils, peroxide, and sodium bicarbonate. Mouthwash can help prevent bad breath, reduce tooth decay, and prevent or reduce gingivitis.

Category
Oral health product
Molecular Formula
Varies
Mechanism of Action
Mouthwash acts by physically removing debris and bacteria, killing bacteria, neutralizing bacterial acids, and providing a protective barrier over teeth.
Evidence Grade
A

Other Names

  • Oral rinse
  • Mouth rinse
  • Anti-cavity rinse

Primary Benefits

  • Prevents bad breath
  • Reduces tooth decay
  • Prevents or reduces gingivitis

Recommended Dosage

Adults 20ml to 30ml once or twice a day
Children 10ml to 15ml once or twice a day

Side Effects

  • Dry mouth
  • Altered taste
  • Oral irritation
  • Tooth staining
  • Mouth ulcers

Precautions

  • Do not swallow
  • Not for use in children under six years of age
  • Avoid contact with eyes

Interactions

  • Interactions can occur with oral medications

Key References

  • American Dental Association
  • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
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Mouthwash 1:27:44 0
“can you brush your teeth do a mouthwash clean your mouth if you have covered you have to have excellent”

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166 – Oral health, best hygiene practices, & relationship between oral health and systemic disease
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“the thing that i just like with mouthwash is that it kills every single it just wipes out all your microbiome including the good ones because they all antibacterial”

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“whether wrap a mice in toothpaste or wrap a mice in mouthwash or something like that specifically delivered to the oral Cav it is that sufficient to get some of the benefits that we've shown in mice from systemic Rapa and treatment on periodon disease gingival inflammation bone growth around the teeth”

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“alcohol is found in all sorts of different things so obviously it's intentionally made through fermentation to ingest but we also use it in cleaning products or like rubbing alcohol or mouthwash, hand sanitizer so there are alcohols all around us and used for many different things.”

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“some of my patients with the most severe forms of alcohol use disorder will drink hand sanitizer or rubbing alcohol or mouthwash if they can't get regular alcohol which tells you really the power of addiction once someone gets to that level of severity.”

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“most toothpaste and mouthwash is killing the oral microbiome that's partly responsible for production of nitric oxide”

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No.1 Nitric Oxide Expert: This is the anti-aging cure no one is talking about!
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“if you use mouthwash it destroyed the microbiome and we saw an increase in blood pressure”

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“if you eradicate the bacteria within 7 days your blood pressure goes up”

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No.1 Nitric Oxide Expert: This is the anti-aging cure no one is talking about!
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“I was doing some research in preparation for this conversation around this subject of oral microbiome and cancer and the link there and one particular study that was done um published in the New York Post but done at New York University they analyzed saliva samples of over 160,000 participants over 15 years are you familiar with this study and they identified over a dozen bacteria species linked to a high risk of head and neck cancers with certain bacteria increasing the risk by 50% of getting a cancer which is pretty shocking um literally I feel like texting my assistant and asking us to book a oral hygieneist and to change my mouthwash”

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“you really can't eat enough beets to get enough nitrate to improve your performance and the other caveat is that if you're using mouthwash you've got fluoride in your toothpaste or fluoride in your drinking water that you're mixing the beet powder in you're not going to get a nitric oxide benefit from it”

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“get rid of fluoride, get rid of mouthwash, stop using ant acids, stop eating sugar anything that leads to an elevation in blood sugar”

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