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Relationship between white tongue and bad breath
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I agree with the notion of overcleaning. However you reccommend people not to scrape their tongue? Does this also apply for Tung Brush.halitosisux wrote: Yeah.. you got me.. I work for Katz. That's why I'm always trying to tell people not to scrape their tongues or use any type of mouthwash. That's why I hardly knew anything about bad breath until I came on this site and started interacting with other real sufferers. That's why I try to help people in every area of this subject that I can and try hard to understand what unknown problems might still exist so that I can no longer exploit vulnerable people with my extortionately priced crap that doesnt work.
I'm intrested in why that is your opinion.
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If you scrape too hard, you injure these very delicate tissues that your tongue surface is made of, which releases blood, white blood cells and god knows what else in response to the injury, which bacteria will feed off and cause even more odour.
Then, because the ends of your tongue papillae are growths of keratin and other dead cells which harden like tiny fingernails, the tissues react and protect themselves as part of this injury response by thickening the growth of the papillae. The result of this is even thicker growth, and you end up with a perpetual cycle of scraping harder and harder. This then creates even more 'sponge' and anaerobic area for bacteria to give you even worse breath than if you had just left it as it was before you started scraping it.
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