Saltwater rinses may help protect against bacteria and infection, promote healing after dental procedures, and benefit your respiratory health. Mouthwash can be helpful to freshen your breath...

Yes, rinsing with salt water helps kill bacteria in the mouth. It’s an easy and natural way to promote oral health. Gargle a warm saltwater solution, and it can soothe your mouth and keep it clean.

Salt water mouth rinse can kill oral bacterial, reduce inflammation after tooth extraction and can relieve sore throat. But it may erode the tooth enamel if used regularly.

Creating a salt water rinse to gargle in your mouth can help kill harmful cavity-causing bacteria. The benefits of gargling salt water include directly killing the bacteria as a result of osmosis as described above and temporarily increasing the pH in your mouth.

Salt water may kill some, but does not kill all, mouth and throat bacteria. However, solutions of salt can help bring bacteria to the surface of the gums, teeth, and throat.