Effectiveness of peppermint-based mouthwash as antibacteria in the mouth: Efektivitas mouthwash berbahan dasar peppermint sebagai antibakteri rongga mulut

Nugraha Putri Mahendra (Program Profesi Pendidikan Dokter Gigi Fakultas Kedokteran Gigi, Universitas Hasanuddin, Makassar, Indonesia)
Lenni Indriani (Departemen Ilmu Material dan Teknologi Kedokteran Gigi Fakultas Kedokteran Gigi, Universitas Hasanuddin, Makassar, Indonesia)
Nurul Husna (Program Profesi Pendidikan Dokter Gigi Fakultas Kedokteran Gigi, Universitas Hasanuddin, Makassar, Indonesia)
Widi Aspiah Azhary (Program Profesi Pendidikan Dokter Gigi Fakultas Kedokteran Gigi, Universitas Hasanuddin, Makassar, Indonesia)

MDJ (Makassar Dental Journal)
Vol. 12 No. 3 (2023): Volume 12 Issue 3 Desember 2023

Indonesia has a variety of plants that can be used as medicinal plants, one of which is peppermint which is widely used as an anti-bacterial and antiallergenic. This literature review discusses the effectiveness of peppermint as an antibacterial, namely se-condary data and literature studies, analyzed descriptively by presenting and comparing the results of studies regarding the con-tent of peppermint in the form of mouthwash which can be an antibacterial in the oral cavity. It is concluded that peppermint-based mouthwash contains menthol, thereby creating a synergistic effect in increasing antibacterial activity.