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"Alcohol use in mouthwash and possible oral health concerns"
Muhammad Wasif Haq1, Mehwish Batool, Syed Hammad Ahsan
1Liaquat College of Medicine and Dentistry, Karachi.
Objective:
To establish the presence and quantify Ethanol in commercially available mouthwashes.
Methods:
Samples from twelve commercially available mouthwashes were tested for the presence of Ethanol followed by the estimation of percentage of Ethanol in five brands in Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (P.C.S.I.R) and Husein Ebrahim Jamal (H.E.J.) labs, Karachi.
Results:
Ten out of twelve brands of mouthwashes were found to be Ethanol positive.
Conclusion:
Alcohol (Ethanol) in the mouthwashes does not contribute to any therapeutic action. It is alarming to find the presence of alcohol in the mouthwashes which claim to contain no alcohol.
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