Oral Hygiene Products: Cosmetic vs Therapeutic
We are taught from a very early age
that brushing and flossing are two of the most necessary habits for keeping our
teeth and gums clean. Due to such levels of awareness, now you can see hundreds
of oral hygiene products like mouthwash, toothpaste etc on the market. However,
in any case, these oral hygiene products will be required to abide by cosmetic
regulatory compliance if they are to be sold on the market. Since it
protects the interests of the consumers.
An oral hygiene product offers you
fresh breath, preventing any tooth decay, decreasing plaque formation,
prevention or decreasing gingivitis and also in reduction of speed of formation
of tartar in the teeth.
But the public should remain alert
about the level of safety and efficiency of all oral hygiene products.
Let’s understand this with an
example. The American Dental Association takes immense interest in this, even
when it is not a regulatory body. They require the manufacturer to submit a
safety as well as efficacy data for the product. Verifying it the council is
responsible to award the seal of acceptance to the specific product.
Although it is purely voluntary, the
seal of acceptance is a very powerful endorsement factor for both the
professionals as well as the customers. To get the seal for safety and
efficacy, the manufacturers are needed to submit all data according to
guidelines for proving every benefit that they claim.
In products where there is no
necessity of clinical studies, there are certain guidelines for performing
certain laboratory tests to prove the product efficiency.
Oral hygiene products assist in the
reduction of caries, gingivitis, dental erosion, stain, plague etc. While some
of the oral hygiene products offer a therapeutic benefit others provide
cosmetic benefits. The cosmetic benefits offer temporary relief from bad breath
but do not help in killing the bacteria. But on the other hand, the therapeutic
products help in killing the bacteria and freshens up your breath
automatically.
But there also exist some of the
dentifrices that offer both cosmetic as well as therapeutic benefits. This
gives a strong perspective on how manufacturers of oral hygiene products are
evolving to offer both the therapeutic as well as cosmetic beneficial ingredients
in the oral hygiene product.
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