Efficacy of Bicarbonate-containing Chewing Gum on the ...

Key ingredient of baking soda, NaHCO3, was used originally in toothpaste as an abrasive (Legier-Vargas 1995), but now it can be used to act as a base by neutralizing plaque acid (Dawes 1997). Chewing bicarbonate gum would be expected to increase salivary pH as bicarbonate ions leach out from the gum. ................
................