期刊名称：Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
印刷版ISSN：1232-1966
电子版ISSN：1898-2263
出版年度：2012
卷号：19
期号：3
页码：609-610
出版社：Institute of Agricultural Medicine in Lublin
摘要：G andini et al. [1] are to be commended for providing the most detailed meta-analysis of epidemiological studies about the connection between mouthwash use and ora l ca ncer risk.The result (i.e. the absence of an association between use of alcohol-containing mouthwash and risk) was not completely unexpec ted, 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 tha n in independently financed studies [6]. Nevertheless, no obvious industry bias was recognizable in the current piece and, especially, the authors have clearly separated a lcohol-containing from alcohol-free mouthwashes in their analysis
