Read on about reported cancer risks of common costly supermarket retailed brands of mouthwash.

• In Australia mouthwash is one of the fastest-growing grocery products now accounting for more than $A75 million p.a. according to published data from Messrs. Nielsen Research.

• Dental professionals are reportedly calling on the ADA to urgently re-assess its rubber stamped approval on mouthwashes containing ethyl alcohol.

• Were it was a facial cream effective in treating acne but delivering a 4-5 fold increased risk of skin cancer, no one would promote it.

• Oral cancer is a grueling and mutilating disease afflicting a reported 800 plus Australians annually, killing half of them within five years of diagnosis.

• The University of Queensland's School of Dentistry, recommends mouthwash be restricted to "short-term'' medical use or replaced by an alcohol-free counter type.

• They further say it is inadvisable for oral health-care professionals to recommend the long-term use of alcohol-containing mouthwashes.

• Evidence was published reporting from an international study of 3,200 people which found daily mouthwash use was a "significant risk factor'' for head and neck cancer, irrespective of whether users also drank alcohol or smoked.

• But the effects of mouthwash were worst in smokers, who had a nine-fold increased risk of cancers of the oral cavity, pharynx and larynx.

• Alcohol drinkers had more than five times the risk - and even those who neither drank nor smoked still ran a four to five-fold risk of contracting cancer.

 
• A Brazilian report has also revealed regular mouthwash use to be associated with oral cancer regardless of tobacco or alcohol consumption.

• "Mouthwash products are in contact with the oral mucosa as much as alcoholic beverages, and may cause chemical aggression of the cells,'' researchers from the University of Sao Paulo declared.

• The common retailed mouthwashes contain significantly higher concentrations of alcohol than drinks such as beer and wine.

• If you drink a glass of wine, you tend to swallow it.  With mouthwash, a typically four fold higher level of alcohol has a longer contact time against the mucous membranes and longer in the mouth. 

• Alcohol present in the mouth as stated above, may liberate hazardous acetaldehyde.

• Habitual alcohol consumption is a known cancer risk, but wine for e.g. usually has a much lesser contact time than mouthwash when the latter is employed as directed.

• Eating while drinking increases salivation, which lowers risk.  The moral difference (between an alcoholic beverage and an alcohol-containing mouthwash) is that one is for pleasure and the other is being commercially trumpeted as a wellness product behind a profitable agenda.

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