Chewing Gum can be an Oral Cavity Clenser

Researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands found that chewing gum can trap and remove 100 million bacteria from the oral cavity in just 10 minutes. Five college students were recruited to chew two different standard types of spearmint gum for various lengths of time ranging from 30 seconds to 10 minutes. The gum was spit into a cup filled with sterile water to be analysed. There were were about 100 million bacteria detected on each ...