Efficacy of 3% hydrogen peroxide solution in cleaning tongue coating before and after surgery: a randomized phase II study

• Main Authors: Sakiko Soutome (Author), Mitsunobu Otsuru (Author), Saki Hayashida (Author), Tomofumi Naruse (Author), Kota Morishita (Author), Kazumi Kurihara (Author), Yumiko Kawashita (Author), Madoka Funahara (Author), Masahiro Umeda (Author), Hideki Taniguchi (Author), Toshiyuki Saito (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Increased bacterial presence in the tongue coating and thereby, the saliva, may be a risk factor for postoperative complications such as surgical site infection or postoperative pneumonia after cancer surgery. However, no method for cleaning tongue coating has been established ex...