How come some people always have fresh breath?

gordongekko · Post by **gordongekko** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 6:13 am

Just like, they brush their teeth once in the morning, after school their breath still smells good, and then the next morning (if they stay at my house) their breath is still fine. How come anaerobic bacteria doesn't grow on their tongue and just ours?

Also, I'm thinking about getting some breezecare k12 stuff, however, someone told me that anaerobic bacteria is highly adaptive and it will become useless after a week - your thoughts?

thanatos · Post by **thanatos** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 8:17 am

I had an ex who always had great breath. she could go to sleep not brushing her teeth and wake up with fresh breath. Not even smoking cigarettes and drinking beer before bed gave her morning breath.

Phantasist · Post by **Phantasist** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:25 pm

Normal saliva has about a dozen antibacterial components in it. These substances diminish the growth of anaerobic bacteria which produce the volatile sulphur compounds. "Normal" people have the good saliva and therefore do not get bad breath no matter what they do. There is a good chance that we who suffer don't have the right chemicals in our saliva, and therefore have bad breath no matter what we do or eat. (However, there are also a few other causes of breath odor.)

Phantasist · Post by **Phantasist** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:26 pm

Normal saliva has about a dozen antibacterial components in it. These substances diminish the growth of anaerobic bacteria which produce the volatile sulphur compounds. "Normal" people have the good saliva and therefore do not get bad breath no matter what they do. There is a good chance that we who suffer don't have the right chemicals in our saliva, and therefore have bad breath no matter what we do or eat. (However, there are also a few other causes of breath odor.)

gordongekko · Post by **gordongekko** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 4:41 am

Phantasist wrote:Normal saliva has about a dozen antibacterial components in it. These substances diminish the growth of anaerobic bacteria which produce the volatile sulphur compounds. "Normal" people have the good saliva and therefore do not get bad breath no matter what they do. There is a good chance that we who suffer don't have the right chemicals in our saliva, and therefore have bad breath no matter what we do or eat. (However, there are also a few other causes of breath odor.)

So how do we put these chemicals into our saliva?

Phantasist · Post by **Phantasist** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 2:31 pm

Gordongekko,
You can't put chemicals in your saliva. Saliva is produced by your body, and the right components are either in the saliva or not. If you're missing some antibacterial substance in your saliva, it is similar to an immune deficiency. I don't think you can do much about that.

hopelessone · Post by **hopelessone** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 10:41 pm

Phantasist wrote:Gordongekko,
You can't put chemicals in your saliva. Saliva is produced by your body, and the right components are either in the saliva or not. If you're missing some antibacterial substance in your saliva, it is similar to an immune deficiency. I don't think you can do much about that.

sounds hopeless, doesn't it?

gordongekko · Post by **gordongekko** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 3:30 am

hopelessone wrote:
Phantasist wrote:Gordongekko,
You can't put chemicals in your saliva. Saliva is produced by your body, and the right components are either in the saliva or not. If you're missing some antibacterial substance in your saliva, it is similar to an immune deficiency. I don't think you can do much about that.
sounds hopeless, doesn't it?

Not hopeless. If we don't have those antibacterial components in our saliva that means there is something obviously wrong. I'm speaking to Phantasist over private messaging. Going to get my saliva checked and found out which antibacterial components i'm missing and buy something over the counter.