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Is a Dogs Mouth Cleaner than a Humans Mouth

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.c→’m pretty sure a dog’s mouth would be some sort of medical miracle, considering: they rarely if ever have their teeth brushed or mouths cleaned; they literally put their mouth on everything; and they use their tongue as toilet paper for not only themselves, but also any other dogs they encounter. Mouths are a great environment for bacteria to thrive; so barring some innate very strong anti-bacterial agent in their saliva, this myth just wasn’t going to be true. There are also numerous types of diseases associated with dog bites, including pasteurella, tetanus, rabies, klebsiella, proteus, E. coli, eikenella, etc, which point to the fact that a dog’s mouth couldn’t be sterile, as people often claim. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/11/a-dogs-mouth-is-not-cleaner-than-a-humans-mouth/ Sources: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1524/are-dog-mouths-cleaner-than-human-mouths http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Health/story?id=1213870 http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/dogs/a/dog_breath.htm http://www.ehow.com/list_6568566_types-bacteria-dog_s-mouth.html

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  • Originally Aired July 21, 2016
  • Runtime 4 minutes
  • Production Code kQ92UH-1wl8
  • Created September 18, 2020 by
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