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Commonly used alcohol-based mouthwashes may have adverse effects on oral microbiomesthe community of bacteria that live in the mouthraising risks of periodontal diseases and some cancers, according to a study...
The research, published in the Journal of Medical Microbiology, included men who have sex with men, who regularly use mouthwash as a method to reduce the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases...
Three months of daily use of the alcohol-based mouthwash increased the amount of two species of opportunistic bacteriaFusobacterium nucleatum and Streptococcus anginosusin the mouth of these men, said the team from the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp in Belgium...
The two bacteria are known to raise the risk of gum disease, and oesophageal and colorectal cancers.. Further, the researchers also observed a decrease in a bacteria group called Actinobacteriacrucial for regulating blood pressure...
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