10/15/2026
Global Handwashing Day!🧼 Learn the importance and impact of washing your hands : Touching your mouth, flossing, or brushing with unwashed hands can transfer harmful bacteria directly into your gums such as viruses like the common cold, canker sores, cold sores, and stomach bugs. 💧🖐️ 💧 As well as bacteria causing gum inflammation by it easily being transferred from a doorknob or phone directly into your mouth, where they quickly multiply when not washing your hands.🦠🧽
If you have a recent dental cut, an open cavity, or a healing extraction site, unwashed hands can introduce bacteria directly into the wound, causing severe infections or abscesses.🙌
