Is a dogs mouth cleaner Than a humans?

Question

My Friends Said That Dogs were the durteist mouths on earth.Is this realy True??I heard it on this show but not shure?

Answer 1

Would you rather be bitten by a dog or by a human? Well, neither of course, but if you had to choose, which would it be? According to a widespread notion, a dog bite is the better choice since a canine mouth is cleaner than a human mouth.
Is this true? Well, yes and no. When we talk about the cleanliness of a mouth, we're really talking about the amount and type of bacteria it contains. The kind of bacteria found in a human mouth and a dog mouth depend on what's been there recently. Unlike dogs, humans typically do not eat raw meat, garbage, and small animals in various states of decay. Given a dog that just locked its jaws around a decomposing squirrel, we might say that the dog's mouth is, for the moment, less clean than a human mouth that has not recently housed a dead squirrel. And since the squirrel-eating dog may pick up disease-causing bacteria from the dead animal, a bite from that dog may pass on dangerous germs.

But insofar as a clean mouth means one that is less likely to cause disease, consider that germs tend to be species specific. Harmful dog germs are usually harmless for humans, unless we're talking about rabies, a disease that affects dogs and people in equally damaging ways. But generally, humans are immune to most dog germs. Likewise, human germs probably won't harm a dog. But human germs can harm humans, of course. So a bite from a human mouth full of harmful bacteria may very well be more damaging than a dog bite, even if the dog's mouth is full of harmful dog germs.

Answer 2

This is basically an urban legend. However, unlike the one about the psycho killer with the hook, this story has a grain of truth. Although the mouth of a typical dog is full of bacteria, it's "species specific." So, if a dog were to lick a person, most of the germs wouldn't transfer. Bottom line -- you're more likely to get a serious illness from kissing a person than kissing a dog. Dogs eat their own feces... their mouths cant possibly be cleanier than ours (well the normal humans who dont eat their own feces, anyways)

The myth may have stemmed from the way pups lick their wounds. A dog's tongue gets rid of dead tissue so wounds heal faster. Perhaps folks concluded that dog saliva is "healthy." Hardly the case, but you shouldn't be afraid of licks. They might be gross, but they're not dangerous.

Answer 3

scientists have proved that a dogs mouth is far cleaner than a humans..
Humans suffer from many differing oral complaints. such as bad gums mouth cancer and so forth.
Dog have millions of bacteria in their mouths but they all work in harmony with each other like the good bacteria in our stomachs.
They help fight infection and help keep diseases at bay.

A sample was recently taken from a dogs mouth and a humans and it came back that over five hundred more types of bacteria exist in a humans mouth than in a dogs.

Strays tend to have much dirtier mouths than humans but kept dogs house pets have better oral hygiene than their owners strange that isn't it...

Answer 4

supposedly the dogs mouth is cleaner then ours because it does not carry the same kinds of bacteria as we do so in a case of a dog licking your food and you ate off the plate you would probably not get sick. Also they do have more bacteria eating bacteria so in that case they technically have cleaner mouths but that will probably always be up to personal reflection

Answer 5

I heard many times that a dogs mouth is cleaner than a humans but i am not exacly sure if thats right.

Answer 6

It is my understanding that the myth originated because people discovered that if a human were bitten by another human, this would be more dangerous than if the human were bitten by a dog. That is because the wounds would have a larger chance of getting infected, since the biting human has human germs, while a biting dog has dog germs (less harmful to humans). Another possibility is that when a dog is injured, he licks the wound until it is better, so people assumed that a dog's saliva was somehow 'clean.'

Answer 7

I heard that dogs' mouths are cleaner than humans. I think the reason for that is they have extra bacteria to kill the germs they get from cleaning themselves "down there", etc.

Answer 8

Mythbusters did this one, look at the link, the answer is towards the bottom of the page. They proved a humans mouth is dirtier than a dogs!! YUCK!

Answer 9

Yes, actually a dog's mouth is one of the cleanist in the world.

Answer 10

Dogs do have cleaner mouths than humans.