Manuka Honey and Reduced Clinical Oral Dryness Score

• Efficacy of Manuka honey oral rinse in treatment of xerostomia among elderly patients: a randomized controlled trial.

  • 2025-05-23
  • RCT
  • BMC oral health 25(1)
  • • Dalia Ghalwash
    • Ayman El-Gawish
    • Asmaa Abou-Bakr

  • PubMed: 40410721
  • DOI: 10.1186/s12903-025-06125-9

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  • Reduced Clinical Oral Dryness Score

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Manuka honey oral rinse caused a significant reduction of the subjective SXI score (2 ± 0.39) and objective clinical oral dryness (5.71 ± 0.91) scores compared to the other 2 groups.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  Manuka honey oral rinse used 3 times per day for 1 month