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Contents 1 Antibiotic resistance 2 Examples 3 Alcohol not good in mouthwash? 4 Breathalyzer 5 SmartMouth Ad 6 Pro-Health controversy 7 Request citation for Traditional Chinese Medicine claim

Antibiotic resistance

Unless there is evidence of antibiotic resistance (with a source), it should not be included in the article. -SCEhardT 02:56, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

this mentions tests indicating minocycline causes slight plaque bacteria resistance. (But it's a prescription product, not something found in normal mouthwashes.) -Elvey 00:20, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Examples

The venerable Listerine and plain Hydrogen peroxide[1] are common examples. (but we don't want the page becoming a list of brand names...) -Elvey 00:20, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

I don't think it's necessary for a citation for hydrogen peroxide -- any bottle of it has instructions for use as a mouthwash on the label on the side. It's common knowledge, or should be. (71.192.231.95 23:52, 12 October 2007 (UTC))

The examples of active ingredients don't fit in with popular dental rinses such as Plax which contain none of the active ingredients listed. This implies more investigation is needed to find out what makes some of these ingredients "active" for use in mouthwash.AnimeJanai 00:47, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Alcohol not good in mouthwash?

I heard on a TV health program that it's recommended to use an alcohol-free mouthwash, but it didn't say why. Anyone know about this.

I've been using a mouthwash (with alcohol) for almost a year and it almost immediately improved my gums (which were sensitive and prone to bleed during flossing - possibly a mild, chronic gingivitis, though the dentist never said so). The link given in the article (Basic Info on Mouthwash - from Bent Tree Dental) suggests the mouthwashes aren't very effective - maybe this is on average, but I know personally it helped. I'd like to find more info on which mouthwash is best, though. And I don't want to kill the good bacteria in my mouth unnecessarily. --Singkong2005 ^talk 03:54, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

I've heard that it can dry your mouth out, however it is a good disinfectant as singkong was saying.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.131.36.144 (talk • contribs) 19:21, 11 January 2007

It is possible that the program believes that alcohol in mouthwash may cause oral cancer. see the 'Safety' section of the Listerine article. 202.216.127.127 —The preceding signed but undated comment was added at 06:17, August 21, 2007 (UTC).

Breathalyzer

I believe that the breathalyzer works by sampling the breath for products of ethanol metabolism, not the presence of ethanol itself. I don't have time to look that up at the moment, but it's what I remember. If that is the case, you'd probably need to swallow at least a shot of mouthwash to get a reading on a breathalyzer; which might be of consequence if you're a minor, plan on driving directly after rinsing, and customarily swallow your gargle juice. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.64.106.184 (talk) 07:14, 5 December 2006 (UTC).

Sorry, that's not correct; see our breathalyzer article. Most modern breathalyzers detect alcohol vapour concentration by infrared spectroscopy. If you think about it, a machine that detected alcohol metabolites would not be very useful, since the reading would depend mainly on how long it was since the subject's first drink, not on how drunk he may be right now. -- Securiger (talk) 11:58, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

You wouldn't want to drink the ones with benzoic acid and/or sodium benzoate since those react with citric acid and vitamin C to form benzene. Well, maybe if you were suffering from scurvy it would be safer to drink.AnimeJanai 00:50, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

This is a bit of an exaggeration. As you can see from our "Benzene in soft drinks" article,

1. The reaction is not very favourable by basic kinetics alone, and probably requires heat or ultraviolet light to proceed at any significant rate;
2. The worst examples found to date are really not very bad -- less harmful than driving on the freeway with the windows open; and
3. To exceed WHO guidelines, you would need to take the worst examples of sun-exposed soft drink, and drink some 20 litres a day. This is pretty unlikely to occur with mouthwash. -- Securiger (talk) 11:58, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

SmartMouth Ad

Does anyone else find that the sentence about SmartMouth is written liek an advertisement? I think it should be omitted. WillV 09:18, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

I agree; it sounds exactly like something you'd hear in a television commercial. Jagan 18:07, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Agree. Also the line about TheraBreath seems like a plug. mooingpolarbear 01:13, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Pro-Health controversy

[2]Crest Pro-Health Mouthwash: "I Woke Up With Brown Spots On My Teeth" —Werson (talk) 18:53, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Request citation for Traditional Chinese Medicine claim

The article states:

The first known reference to mouth rinsing is in the Chinese medicine, about 2700 BCE, for treatment of gingivitis.

I just added a {{fact}} tag because I strongly suspect this may be a reference to the Neijing Suwen . This is a book in traditional Chinese medicine which has traditionally been claimed to have written about 2700 BC; however, modern historical research indicates that it actually dates to somewhere between 400 BC and 260 AD -- but at any rate, thousands of years more recent than the traditional date. -- Securiger (talk) 11:58, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

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