Keep your tongue clean
Gently brush it with a soft nylon toothbrush after you brush
your teeth.
Drink More Water!
The drier your mouth, the worse your breath gets
Keep Calm
Stress makes your breath worse!
Avoid breath mints and/or gum that contain sugar
These actually make your breath worse
Don’t try to kill the odor of bad breath with another odor
This is what most of the ‘Big Name’ oral care companies would
like you to believe works
Blow your nose more often
Your breath gets worse when you have a cold, allergies, or
post-nasal drip
Don’t use mouth wash w/ alcohol or toothpaste that has sodium
lauryl sulfate
Do you have any idea how many oral care products contain these
two ingredients? Here’s a hint, just about all of them
Drink plenty of water when taking prescription medications
Many of these medicines make your mouth extremely dry
Stop Smoking
It will give you bad breath in a nanosecond, but may only take
20 years to kill you!
And finally, The Best Way to Eliminate & Prevent Bad
Breath?
Use Clinically Proven Oxygenating Oral Products .
DO YOU KNOW ?
Important things you may not know about bad breath:
In most cases (about 90%), bad breath comes from the mouth
itself.
- Despite public opinion, bad breath rarely comes from the
stomach.
- Most people can smell other people’s breath, but have
troublesmelling their own. So, if you think you have bad breath, you might or
you might not. Bad taste is usually not a good indication. The best and
simplest way to find out is to ask an adult in your family or a close friend.
- In the mouth, the most common source of bad breath is the
very back of the tongue. Food debris, dead cells and postnasal drip can
accumulate there, and the breakdown of the proteins by the resident bacteria
causes foul odor. The second most important cause is bacteria breaking down
protein between your teeth. By the way, the gases and other molecules that the
bacteria produce are toxic and can harm your gums as well. Two good reasons to
floss every day (if you don’t believe me, smell the floss)…
- Bad breath usually increases when the mouth is dry. Chewing
sugarless gum for 4-5 minutes at a time can be helpful.
- The generalization that mouthwashes work for only a few
minutes is wrong. Try gargling right before bedtime for best results. Some
researchers recommend alcohol-free mouthrinses.
- Eating a hearty and healthy breakfast cleans the mouth and
back of the tongue, gets the saliva flowing, and is probably good for you.
- Some people (maybe 5-7% of the population) have experienced
small crumbly ’stones’ in their mouths that have a foul smell. These are called
‘tonsilloliths’. They are partially calcified, full of bacteria and develop in
crypts in the tonsils. They smell pretty bad, but do not always cause bad
breath (again, you have to ask someone).
- In the large majority of cases, bad breath can be dramatically
improved or eliminated.
- Children as young or two or three can have bad breath from
postnasal drip, dental plaque and transient throat infections. However, if they
develop sudden offensive odor that appears to come from all over their body, ask
the physician to check whether they stuffed something up one of their nostrils.
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