halitosisux wrote:are you able to determine with absolute 100% certainty whether or not the people who come to you have BB and by what magnitude? Do you have access to gas spectrometry equipment as well as the standard halimeter?
First of all, there is not 100% in medicine.
Yes, I am able to distinguish the origin of halitosis of a person. Almost certainly.
But its magnitude ?, no.
Because halitometers measure only actual values of halitosis for just that moment. We dont know whether the patient had eaten any strong smelling foods yesterday or the day before yesterday.
Usually, most of doctors measure static mouth gas (statik agiz havasi = SAH). after patient keep close his mouth for 3 min. This is static air's smell. I call it SAH.
According to me, It dosent matter what SAH is.
It may be 10, 350, 600 or 1000 ppb.
This value avaliable only for the date of measurement. But it is unavailable for next appointment of that patient neither reflects general bad-odor status of that patient.
Most halitosis centers measure and evaluate SAH only. I dont think this is very good idea.
I read somewhere that if you eat very strong smelling foods like garlic, curry, etc, the compounds of which end up being carried in the bloodstream and released out of the lungs in some people,
This is correct.
For this reason SAH is available only one session for that patient. I have developed a mesaurement methodology. I measure gases with 5 different condition. Static mouth air, expiration mouth air, after zinc static mouth air, static nose air, axpiration nose air. Positions of this 5 numbers according to each other give me address(es) of the halitosis of that patient.
An example:
First patient, five data measured as 1000-850-300-750-690.
Second patient, measured as 56-42-5-34-33.
In these examples, both patient is clearly type 1 case.
First patient perhaps ate garlic yesterday. but second paient did not. Both case can not be type 4, or type5, most possible they are not type2, but cant not be said not type3.
As you see here, It doesnt matter magnitude of numbers. The important thing is status of numbers to each other. (Hope my English can be enough to explain what Im trying to tell you?)
My method nearly gives address of halitosis independently from magnitude of halimeter readings. But nothing is 100%.
Your other questions:
I have not experience on TMAU patients. I dont know what precursors can be detected in blood for TMAU patience.
I have no idea how blood can be smelled.
- Murat Aydin
