Mouthwash & dentistry during the pandemic
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
One or our listeners, Katharine, asks whether mouthwash can help stop the spread of coronavirus. We hunt down the answer with the help of biochemist Valerie O’Donnell, from the University of Cardiff, and our own Dr Margaret McCartney.
Then it’s our turn in the dentist’s chair. Dentistry is up close and personal with a fair amount of splatter, the perfect place for coronavirus to spread. So dentist Paul Woodhouse and University of Newcastle dentist and researcher, Richard Holliday, are on to explain how to make it safe.
PRESENTER: James Gallagher PRODUCER: Beth Eastwood
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| 0:42.3 | That was some potent mouthwash. |
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| 0:54.1 | This is my bathroom. I never thought I'd |
| 0:56.3 | be broadcasting from in here. But we are talking about oral health for the whole of this program, |
| 1:02.5 | starting off with a question from listener, Catherine. What I wanted to know was whether |
| 1:08.3 | gargling with a mouthwash could kill the COVID virus in your mouth. |
| 1:12.8 | So, Catherine, have you been trying this? Yes, I have. I've tried a 1% iodine one. So why are you doing it then? |
| 1:19.5 | Well, I'm a carer for my 94-year-old mum, but I've also worked throughout the pandemic as a magistrate. |
| 1:26.3 | And even though the courts are really clean and they're |
| 1:29.0 | COVID secure, I still meet a lot more people in court than I would when I'm at home. And sometimes |
| 1:34.2 | I have to remove my mask when I speak. So I decided I'd get a few bottles of iodine mouthwash |
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