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Wisdom Teeth Extraction Cured My Nasal Bad Breath

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Re: Hi Cured

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As I said, when I lie down with the face facing the sky; I feel very much as if I do not have BB. What could be the reason?
I wish I could help you there...


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Got my bottom impacted wisdoms out. How are you doing?

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June 19, 2009

BEFORE READING THIS, PLEASE READ THE ORIGINAL POST by CURE in the link below:

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It’s about bad breath caused by impacted wisdom teeth and being cured after the extraction.

Hi, good day cured.


I just want an update on your situation. Since among the numerous personal accounts that I have read, throughout my desperate effort researching, in the hopes of finding a solution to this devastating problem, YOUR POSTS ARE THE ONES THAT I FOUND TACKLING THE SITUATION IN THE MOST SCIENTIFIC AND OBJECTIVE MANNER POSSIBLE. I very much hope that you haven’t got tired helping other people who are in this situation, and believe me, your mere insights in this forum have already gone a long way. For that alone, we thank you. I hope you will be able to reply to this post as soon as possible.

I am sure, Drastic, and many others in this forum, will second my motion.

I very much agree that removal of wisdom teeth (be they impacted or not impacted) is not the panacea for all people having chronic bad breath problems. Everyone reading this post must clearly understand that. There are numerous causes, too many to enumerate actually, therefore each and every person suffering from chronic bad breath: the cause is always case-to-case basis. All the more, I have read accounts of fellow sufferers that still have the problem even after removal of all four wisdom teeth, tonsillectomy, and continuing their daily regimen to combat the problem (i.e. brushing, flossing, tongue cleaning/scraping, nasal irrigation, hydrogen peroxide, mints, muriatic acid, zonrox bleach and what have you: all the nasty stuff that ‘normal’ people DO NOT have to do every day of their lives just to keep their breath fresh. Toothbrush and toothpaste for less than a minute is enough for those lucky people)

THEREFORE, PREREQUISITE TO KNOWING WHAT COURSE OF ACTION TO TAKE IS FINDING THE SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM.

Nonetheless, the reason why I find your personal account very objective and why wisdom teeth as source of chronic bad breath a very plausible cause, well at least for my case, is that I never really suffered this case until my wisdom teeth went out, which was about 2 years ago. I am turning 20 right now.

I am not certain if I did or did not have this problem before these two years, since we all know that there is no real way of knowing. Self-test methods are very unreliable, so as observing reactions from other people. Mustering all the courage to ask someone frankly about the status of your breath--- PEOPLE DO LIE. Even doctors themselves, as we all know. But the point I want to make is, the social persecution (direct or indirect) that I am experiencing right now, I did not experience before these two years.

I was reading your posts and it strengthened my suspicion that my impacted wisdom teeth were the culprit. A self test that I do is that I lick and ‘touch’ my lips against the back part of my hand, and yes, there was a certain smell. It’s not a bad breath smell, but there was a smell. I also sort of pick my nose, and yes, there was a cheesy smell.

I decided extracting ONLY my bottom wisdoms, because they are the ones I see severely impacted and already decaying two months ago. The upper wisdoms also were impacted, yet not severely horizontal like the upper ones, and they were not decaying. And when I touch it, it was like the other normal teeth, they had no flaps, unlike the bottom wisdoms.

Two weeks after having my bottom wisdoms extracted, I had very high hopes. I noticed improvement, yet, not 90% like yours, it was like, 30% only. A few more weeks later, there was no smell totally when I was doing the self test I mentioned above. Up to now, I can’t detect anything when I do this self test, yet I am devastated right now because I just asked my trusted confidant, and she said that there was no improvement in the smell of my breath prior and after the removal of my two bottom wisdoms. And reactions from people, I still do get.

Now my dilemma is, is it really caused by my wisdoms, or is it because of something else. I am not very hopeful anymore if removing my upper two wisdoms will do something. Or maybe I need to have tonsillectomy. Or there is no more hope. I don’t know.

I am asking for your advice, on what do you think is best for me to do in my case. Having these surgeries not only is costly, but pose significant risks. The time and money spent, not to mention the humiliation and effort of trying to convince bewildered doctors to perform major surgeries they think is unnecessary and won’t be able to solve the problem IS NO JOKE. Besides I have a very hectic schedule attending univ, which is of course, as you can assume a living hell for me along with the everyday commute, etc. I already even walked several times the whole 15 kilometers from home to school just to avoid people smelling me during the commute.

So my question is, did it really work? Are you already a 100% cured? Or does it come back from time to time. I hope not. 

Again, thank you for your time, thank you for being an inspiration to the beleaguered people here in this forum hoping that one day we wake up delivered from this curse.

All of us know that no words will ever suffice to express the sorrow that we are all experiencing. A far greater curse than Cancer, AIDS, paralysis, blindness, etc. because all of these aforementioned illnesses have hope of deliverance either by cure or by death. Although it takes a lot from the people suffering from them, it DOES NOT take one important thing ---- their humanity. On the contrary, Chronic Bad Breath does. Each and every day we wake up knowing that it won’t come to an end. It takes away our humanity—humanity in the sense that IT TOOK AWAY OUR HUMAN RIGHT TO SOCIALIZE, OUR RIGHT TO BE LOVED.
God bless all of us.

Thanks.

Sincerely,

LovedByMany

cc: Cured, Drastic
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Re: Got my bottom impacted wisdoms out. How are you doing?

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Greetings LovedByMany,

To answer your questions, first, yes I am still bad breath free and enjoying life again in ways I'd been unable to in years. Extracting those teeth has become my permanent cure.

Secondly, if you're going to go ahead and extract your wisdom teeth, I would not just do two, and keep wondering if the other two are the actual cause if things don't get better. Finish what you've started and see it through: have the other two extracted as well, even if it means additional expense.

Unfortunately, with things like this...chronic bad breath of unknown origin...and especially with trying something like surgery...the holy grail will always be knowing the impact ahead of time so as to know whether to go ahead with the procedure or not. Believe me, LBM, you are one of multitudes of people who come to me with this question, and my answer, unfortunately cannot ever change, and that is: I don't know.

The only thing I can suggest is what to try first (ie, tonsilectomy then wisdom teeth), but beyond that I am as clueless an anyone.
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Re: Got my bottom impacted wisdoms out. How are you doing?

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Cured wrote: Secondly, if you're going to go ahead and extract your wisdom teeth, I would not just do two, and keep wondering if the other two are the actual cause if things don't get better.
Definitely. I just read on the french forum that a member was told by an oral specialist that nasal odor is caused by the upper wisdoms - taking them out will correct the problem after 2 months.

I don't have any more info than that and have no idea if it's even accurate. But it's something to consider since most people seem to just have the lower ones removed.
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Wisdom teeth are crap

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Dear Cured,

Thanks for the very prompt reply. I thought you were gone. Your last post was last March. And again, congratulations. Congratulations for overcoming this ordeal and moreover for being an inspiration to everyone in this site.

You gave more hope to me. I thought I was losing it for the past days.

So you helped me make up my mind. Im scheduling extraction of my 2upper wisdom teeth. I hope, like you, once and for all, this will end.
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Dear Archimonde,

Can you post the url link of the french forum you are saying regariding an oral specialist saying that upper wisdom teeth are the cause of nasal problems. Thank you very much.

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Dear Drastic,

Did you have your wisdom teeth (EXTRACT EVERYTHING!! ALL 4) extracted? How are you. Don't give up hope. I was thinking of giving up too, but there are still things in this world to look forward to, believe me.
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Everyone,

Can I take up a survey? Around what age do you think this problem of yours started?

Anyone had their impacted wisdom teeth removed (all four) but is still suffering from the problem?

Try reading this site, it's interesting. Not only his mouth stinks:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/15102869/Something-Smell

It may be a sort of inspiration to all of us.

Thanks again,

Loved By Many
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Cured,

I'm very happy that you have been freed from the condition. I have the same issue with the nasal breath, although i don't get it all the time. My question to you is did you always have it or was it some that occured every so often like mine.

I also have my wisdom teeth, all four, never had any problem with them. I've been told by several dentist that my problem was not "in my mouth", but your experience makes me think twice about that.
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Post by danger »

this thread is very interesting, especially cured and halitosisux's stories

my bottom 2 wisdom teeth are hardly visible when i look in the mirror, especially on the left side, when i touch it it barely feels like a tooth
i dont think the right sided one is even half the size of the tooth next to it either, plus when i when i rub around that area i can detect also a cheesy smell that i get sometimes
and looking back i have sometimes had a pain in my jaw area

and like cured when he rubs his nose he gets a stronger sense of the smell, i do as well. i dont think i get bad breath coming out my nose though, just when i rub my nose or open up my nostrils a bit and breath out through i get a stronger sense of a bad smell in my mouth

i am definitely going to get a dentist to have a look at my wisom teeth

are wisdom teeth(especially the lower ones) supposed to fully grow and be a similar size to the tooth next to them?

i have never even really thought about it until now
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Greetings danger,
danger wrote:are wisdom teeth(especially the lower ones) supposed to fully grow and be a similar size to the tooth next to them?
In theory yes, but for many of us, we are genetically programmed to have wisdom teeth grow out but our jaw doesn't grow large enough to fit them all perfectly with the rest of our teeth. So you get some 'overcrowding' in the rear of the jaw, if you will, and many times the wisdom teeth cannot fully erupt for this reason.
i have never even really thought about it until now
I know nobody on this site had mentioned this theory before my post, and that was a large part of my motivation for introducing it. I hope that it has been able to help at least a few people. :)
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Post by hope4smell »

Hello,

I am a 29 year old female who has suffered from the same “smell”. I have had a lot of the same experiences with seeing all types of doctors and having multiple tests done…supposedly I am completely healthy. I just got all 4 of my wisdom teeth removed 10 days ago and I am hoping this is my cure... so far the smell is still here. The dentists I’ve seen never found an obvious issue with my teeth/wisdom teeth. One of the reasons I made the decision to get them removed is finding your story...I was in tears as I read it I was so happy for you! Secondly, when I got my braces off as a teen, my wisdom teeth were growing in at the same time. This smell started ever since, only it has progressed through the years. My teeth shifted a lot from not wearing retainers and my wisdom teeth probably didn’t help… I have a lot of stains as well. I hate doing this but when I floss, I try to find the smell by smelling the floss…I never smell anything. When the dentist removed my bottom right wisdom tooth there was a cavity on it but he didn’t think anything of it…I am really hopeful that this is my cure but as you know it, is so hard not to give up after doing everything you can to find a solution.

Do you think it will take time for me to see a difference in the smell…how long is normal?

Thank You!
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hope4smell wrote:Do you think it will take time for me to see a difference in the smell…how long is normal?
Hey hope4smell,

Yes, it'll definitely take some time. First of all, there's the immediate, acute bad breath caused by extracting the teeth and the food that accumulates in the deep sockets left by the extractions. Give yourself a good two weeks to get rid of these odors.

Beyond this wait, I'd give yourself another good two to three weeks to even everything out to truly judge. By about a month or so after extraction you should see a real difference if the teeth were the problem. If you haven't seen any improvement by the end of a month, then... :(
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Post by kelly »

Hi all,

I'm new member here, after reading cured experience, I noticed that I had partially errupted second molars. (I don't have wisdom teeth nor tonsils) and did flap surgery last week to expose them. Right now after a week I still have bb :( I have done almost all remedies that [cured] had with no avail. Do you think that stichhes might cause bb? Shouldn't I had noticed any improvement so far if that was the cause?

Kelly
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Post by mrdann »

thank you for your experience it seems we have the same problem
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mrdann wrote:thank you for your experience it seems we have the same problem
Wow, spam for an escort service. That's a creative idea. I guess bad breath sufferers might feel they need to utilize your services due to the fact they feel like they are unable to "score" without paying someone. :roll:

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Cured,

I really hope you still visit this site,
i realize u haven't posted in this thread since 2009. I just want to say WOW. reading through your experience has really inspired me. Reason being, how similar our conditions seem to be to each other.
Never have i come across or read about online someone with such similar conditions to mine!! this is freakin amazing!!!!

I mean in terms of the terrible stench through the nose, and how its not AS bad through the mouth.....how doctors and specialists would say " i cant smell anything " and thinking your crazy... yes Ive had my tonsils taken out after being insisted that was the problem (obviously it wasn't). In the early years, i would swear the cause was in my nose. And so on.

I just have one little gray area that i really would like to ask you about before i go through with the decision of removing all 4 of my wisdom teeth.

-you said that this smell started when your wisdom teeth started coming in at about 18yrs old(grad)? I know its probably hard to recall that far back but, do you think the smell could have started a little before your wisdom teeth came in?
because my condition resembles yours in so many ways, except for the fact that this stench started when i was 15 years old , which was probably a few years before my teeth started coming in.... other than this slight difference in age timing, im so glad i found someone i can relate to in terms of this foul nose stench.
also, sorry if i missed it but, are u male or female?
thank you godbless.
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