Explain how rinsing your mouth with salt water may help to reduce swelling of the gums. Use appropriate terms including osmosis, hypotonic, and/or isotonic.

Question

Explain how rinsing your mouth with salt water may help to reduce swelling of the gums. Use appropriate terms including osmosis, hypotonic, and/or isotonic.

Answer 1

Salt water is hypertonic to the bacteria/germs in the gum. when you rinse with salt water, the hypertonic solution will results in water coming out of the bacteria and kill the bacteria and reduces the swelling of the gums.