is a dogs mouth cleaner than a humans?

Answer 1

ould 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

Actually I've heard the complete opposite. That a dog's mouth is filled with bacteria and such. They say though that it is worse to get bit by a human than a dog, but no real facts to back it up...

Answer 3

Dogs mouths have an antibacterial agent in their saliva that makes their mouths cleaner than humans. But due to what they do with their mouth it makes it dirtier than a humans.

Answer 4

Hygienically not as they do never brush their teeth.

Otherwise dogs never talk dirty like human, so from that point of view their mouth is cleaner.

Answer 5

If I put my toungue on my body like a dog can put theirs, I wouldn't want it in my mouth. A dog's saliva tends to "clean" their mouths, but at the same time, their digestive systems are not as vulnerable to gastronomical distress as people. A dog will eat rotten meat and not get sick.

Answer 6

yes and no. a dog eats many bacteria infested foods and other things that humans do not. it makes their mouth seem dirtier and also they do not clean their teeth like us humans do. but also 'yes' since the bacteria in their mouth are less dangerous and infectious then a humans and their bacteria in their mouths will usualy not harm us. so yes and no. its really all for you to decide

Answer 7

Absolutely not. Aside from what the other people have said about dogs eating their feces, a dogs saliva is also the source of how you can get rabies, and however minute a cut u have, its not going to have a good result.

Answer 8

In a way convinced, and in a way, no. people have bacteria on their tongue continuously for some reason (I forgot), and it really is in tremendous quantities. in case you stick out your tongue and look into it, you spot those circles all on it? it truly is bacteria! canines, on the different hand, don't have the bacteria. So convinced, that is purifier than ours because there tongue is roofed via a layer of bacteria like ours is. yet, our bacteria isn't volatile bacteria (for sure) and canines devour gross issues. canines devour trash, devour their poop, p.c.. up nasty issues off the line, etc. at the same time as they do this, because they don't have bacteria on their tongue to interrupt it down, it continues to be there for awhile, making their mouth extremely dirty! So in a way that is purifier, yet with what they get themselves into, it better than likely isn't!

Answer 9

I think that depends on what it just finished eating. Dogs seem to enjoy eating some pretty gross stuff- and yet they don't seem to get sick any more than we do... -So their systems seem to be able to handle it alright... Hmm... I wonder if any studies have been done on whether dog "kisses" are any less sanitary than people kisses!

Answer 10

Truth is, oral bacteria are so species-specific that one can't be considered cleaner than the other, just different.