Journal of Community Medicine and Wellness Programs Open Access Brief Communication Article
Volume 1 – Issue 1
Efficacy of Prophylactic Mouth Rinses on Reducing Oral Levels of SARS-CoV-2 Shohreh Ghasemi1,* and Mahmood Dashti2 1
Adjunct assistant professor of Department of Oral and maxillofacial surgery of Augusta University
2
DDS, Private practice
*
Corresponding author: Shohreh Ghasemi, Adjunct assistant professor of Department of Oral and maxillofacial surgery of Augusta
University Received date: 23 June, 2021 |
Accepted date: 25 July, 2021 |
Published date: 27 July, 2021
Citation: Ghasemi S, Dashti M (2021) Efficacy of prophylactic mouth rinses on reducing oral levels of SARS-CoV-2. J Community Med Wellness 1(1). doi https://doi.org/10.54289/JCMWP2100101 Copyright: © 2021 Ghasemi S, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract Mouthwashes has been used for preventing causes for many years, mostly by the patients before any treatment and surgery, nowadays with Covid-19 pandemic there has been an increase in the preoperative use of mouthwashes by the patients to decrease the viral load of oral cavity, but dentists can also use the benefits of mouthwashes themselves by using them after the procedures to clear their mouths and the path of the Sars-cov-2. Keywords: Chlorhexidine; Hydrogen peroxide; Iodopovidone; Covid-19; Prophylaxis routine dental procedures like fillings and cleaning to more
Introduction
invasive interventions like jaw reconstruction and tumor
Oral rinses have been used as an industry standard in dentistry
resection. This simple, cheap and innocuous procedure is now
for decades to reduce oral levels of pathogens including
being used for a different purpose. In light of the COVID-19
bacteria and viruses. According to the American Academy of
pandemic, reduction in the spread of oral and respiratory
Dentistry mouth rinses can be broken down into two
borne viruses has become paramount in the global battle
categories, cosmetic and therapeutic. Those categorized as
against coronavirus. Both dentists and medical providers,
therapeutic include chlorhexidine, essential oils, fluoride, and
including ear nose throat specialists and anesthesiologists
hydrogen peroxide. These rinses are routinely used in both
who routinely intubate patients, have implemented the use of
dental practices as well as in the OR setting prior to any
these virucidal mouth rinses to reduce viral loads of both
invasive procedure involving treatment of the oral cavity.
COVID-19 positive and non-infected patients. Dentists are
However, these mouth rinses, are typically utilized to reduce
particularly at risk for transmission of COVID-19 because
risk of infection to the patient. By disinfecting the oral cavity
they work directly in the oral cavity where the virus resides
through bacteriostatic, bactericidal, and virucidal rinses
and the work, they do creates an enormous amount of
practitioners can mitigate the risk of spreading an infection
aerosols. In addition to a multitude of barrier and personal
from a patient’s mouth or the outside environment to other
protective equipment (PPE) techniques being implemented,
parts of their body. Prophylactic rinses are often used prior to
prior to procedures in the oral cavity patients are asked to
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