Mouthwash And Cancer

Written By: Rebecca on February 19, 2009 No Comment

mouth One international study that looked at the habits of 3,210 people and found that the use of mouthwash on a daily basis was a “significant risk factor” for developing head and neck cancers. This was regardless of whether the mouthwash users smoked cigarettes or drank alcohol.

A review which was published in the Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology expressed “doubts about the safety of alcohol-containing oral products” and stated that it would be “prudent, precautionary public-health policy to generally refrain from using ethanol in (mouthwash) products”.

Another study in Brazil similarly linked regular use of mouthwash to oral cancer. This was again the case whether or not the users smoked or drank.

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