Alcohol-containing mouthwash and oral cancer – can epidemiology prove the absence of risk?
Journal Title: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine - Year 2012, Vol 19, Issue 3
Abstract
Gandini et al. [1] are to be commended for providing the most detailed meta-analysis of epidemiological studies about the connection between mouthwash use and oral cancer risk.The result (i.e. the absence of an association between use of alcohol-containing mouthwash and risk) was not completely unexpected, based on previous meta analyses financed by manufacturers of this type of mouthwash [2, 3, 4, 5], which were critically scrutinized in the past as the outcomes were often more favourable than in independently financed studies [6]. Nevertheless, no obvious industry bias was recognizable in the current piece and, especially, the authors have clearly separated alcohol-containing from alcohol-free mouthwashes in their analysis.
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Dirk W. Lachenmeier
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