Mouth rinses efficacy on salivary SARS‐CoV‐2 viral load: A randomized clinical trial

• Published in: Journal of medical virology Vol. 95; no. 1; pp. e28412 - n/a
• Main Authors: Alzahrani, Manar M., Bamashmous, Shatha, Alkharobi, Hanaa, Alghamdi, Abdullah, Alharbi, Rahaf H., Hassan, Ahmed M., Darwish, Manar, Bukhari, Abdullah, Mahmoud, Ahmad Bakur, Alfaleh, Mohamed A., Mirza, Ahmed A., Abuzenadah, Adel M., Abujamel, Turki S., Hashem, Anwar M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.01.2023; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Antiviral drugs; Cetylpyridinium - therapeutic use; Cetylpyridinium chloride; Chlorides; Clinical trials; coronavirus; COVID-19; Distilled water; Humans; Hydrogen Peroxide; Hypochlorous acid; Iodine; Mouth; Mouthwashes; Mouthwashes - therapeutic use; Pandemics; Povidone; Povidone-Iodine - therapeutic use; povidone‐iodine; Reverse transcription; Rinsing; saliva; SARS-CoV-2; Severe acute respiratory syndrome; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Statistical analysis; Viral diseases; Viral Load; Virology; Water; Water control; COVID-19; saliva; SARS-CoV-2; viral load; cetylpyridinium chloride; hydrogen peroxide; mouthwashes; coronavirus; povidone-iodine

Considering the global trend to confine the COVID‐19 pandemic by applying various preventive health measures, preprocedural mouth rinsing has been proposed to mitigate the transmission risk of SARS‐CoV‐2 in dental clinics. The study aimed to investigate the effect of different mouth rinses on saliva...