What is the big deal about chlorine dioxide?
Chlorine dioxide is a gas and is very unstable. The “stabilized” form of chlorine dioxide is called sodium chlorite and is one of the active ingredients in TriOral. Many other products have stabilized chlorine dioxide as their only active ingredient. While it may have an effect on existing odors in the mouth, stabilized chlorine dioxide alone cannot continue to prevent new odors from forming. Therefore, it only has a short-term effect on bad breath. In TriOral, sodium chlorite is carefully formulated with other ingredients to protect against bad breath for 12 full hours.
