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Wisdom Teeth Extraction Cured My Nasal Bad Breath

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DRASTIC wrote:I say this because some dentist dont check us thoroughly yet they yell us allis well.
This I would agree 100% with...and I would say most dentists don't know how to properly diagnose and treat this problem...a clean bill of health from a dentist or ENT is meaningless when you have it...

As for me, well, I've just passed the 7 month mark since the extraction surgery and still in a holding pattern at about 90% better waiting for those bottom sockets to fully seal up with new bone and gum tissue. Their pace is excruciatingly slow, like watching paint dry.

For periods of a few days or so I will now get no reactions from anyone whatsoever, no matter how deeply I breathe in before talking, no sniffles, no index finger rubs across the bottom of people's noses. But for a few days after that I will get those types of reactions quite a few times a day...they are almost always very minor reactions compared to how they used to be, but still, a reaction is a reaction. So my life alternates between those two patterns.

Thing is that even when people do react slightly, it doesn't make me recoil in horror anymore and I can genuinely say that I don't let it bother me, because I know I've done all I can and it just takes time, and because I know what the source of the problem is and have been treating it.

The continued presence of reactions, however small or rare they may be though, doesn't allow you to forget about the problem (which is partly why I still post here), so that does get me thinking every now and then about just how much more I can really expect to improve once those bottom sockets fully seal and the indentations are completely gone. I'd like to think I'd be 100% better, but it's just been such a long wait that the diabolical thought process that starts looking at other things (you know, the same grasping at straws you guys go through wondering if it's the stomach one day, your tongue the next and so on) has somewhat crept in again and I look at my other teeth, especially my one impacted 2nd molar and just wonder whether the wisdom teeth were 100% of the problem and still just need more time, or whether they were 90% of the problem and have gotten about as good as they're ever gonna be, and the other 10% lies in that other tooth or yet another or yet elsewhere.

The second option is enough to drive one crazy, so I'd rather stick with the first, but also because the days where I still get slight reactions are ones where I've done my best brushing and flossing. So for right now I'm still waiting for the day this dying dragon takes its last breath, still fairly confident the extraction 7 months ago struck the fatal blow.

Mankind is such a fickle being; when something changes in our lives we easily forget how good/bad we used to have it. And though I still look at this problem with a view of imperfection since it is still not 100.000% gone yet, it's impossible to compare the life of suffering, isolation and loneliness I used to lead and my very sociably confident life now..the 90+% improvement is quite literal and is everything that an improvement of that magnitude is for anything else. But as time wears on, I do catch myself mentally making that 90% improvement the new 0% improvement and have to stop myself.


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HI Cured,

Thanks a lot for responding. Its good to hear from you.

Also, glad to know that you havent forgotten us who are still in the struggle.

I have to say 90% improvement i alot. What I would give to have maybe 50% improvement.

I think I will try tonsillectomy first and then if that doesnt work I will try the wisdoms and stomach.

Thanks again for responding.

Drastic
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Post by fedenon »

hi cured, ur post its amazing.
Maybe u need found the others points in ur mouth in the gum, in the teeth you sniff the odour.
i dont speak english...
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you felt like you burn the nostrils?
i dont speak english...
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Hi Cured,

Thanks a agin for updating us about your successful results.

I have a question to ask you.

I have been having a bitter taste in my mouth now for over a month done everything to get rid of it even scraping gargling.

I also notice a pain coming from my right jaw when ever I bite down hard with my teeth. I think I will be going to the dentist to get some x-rays done.

Can you tell me if you went to a dentist or a periodontist?

Did you have any pain or bitter taste in your mouth right before you extract your teeth?

Thanks,

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DRASTIC wrote:Can you tell me if you went to a dentist or a periodontist?
I've never seen a periodonist, but yes, I went to dentist regularly...well...in the past couple years when I didn't have insurance I'd only go maybe twice a year...certainly not less than once a year though.
Did you have any pain or bitter taste in your mouth right before you extract your teeth?
No, I didn't, but I've gotten a bitter taste since the extraction that comes and goes every now and then. It doesn't bother me that much so I don't make a big deal of it.
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Post by lifeguy »

Hello Cured,

I was wondering did you get rid of the BB instantly after extracting the wisdom teeth? or did it take a while for it to faint? if so how long after the extraction did you feel the difference?

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lifeguy wrote:I was wondering did you get rid of the BB instantly after extracting the wisdom teeth? or did it take a while for it to faint? if so how long after the extraction did you feel the difference?
I addressed this in my original and following posts...
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Hi there, I just read your story.I want to thank you for posting it.I have the same experiences you described.Doing the xrays of sinuses,going to the dentist and wondering why my finger does not stink when I stick them in my nostrils. Wow removing all of 4 teeth seem kinda drastic,but you were obviously desperate for relief and so am I. Right now I am willing to try anything. But I want to ask..Did you ever think it was coming from your stomach?I mean a doctor mentioned that it could be the air or some gas stuff coming from from my stomach.I did think hard on that but wonders why it does not smell as bad from my mouth as it does from my nostrils.Also,did you have fillings in any of your teeth.I do have silver fillings,well not in the wisdom teeth.For me people coughed or seem to be allergic to me only when I breathe from my nose.At times I will pin my nostrils with something and breathe from my mouth and they did not cough or anything.Did it seem like they were always reacting because of the smell from your nose rather than from your mouth?
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What a post and story. And all the best to you, Cured.
I had heard of hidden wisdom teeth causing problems but not already popped ones that pass the general dental hygene tests
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hi Cured,

I think you were lucky to find a dentist who took you seriously. I rememeber going to a dentist about my wisdom teeth because the gums were bleeding. Guess what the STUPID dentist told me- That its nothing to worry about and that he doesnt know where the bad breath is coming from.

After all that his response was to say he could refer me to some bb specialist on Harley Street. What a F**K**G Moron. I wanted to stab him with the dental equipment nearby. I almost imagined I had stabbed him for a minute. Like i was in a daze, then he said something else and I realised he was still there. :-({|=

Why should he refer me to a specialist on Harley street in London?
Do you know how much these people charge on Harley Street private practice?

A dentist and he Knew Nothing about bad breath. If I was his manager I would have fired his STUPID ASS SAME DAY> Then stabbed him while he was on the way out. :lol:
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Greetings Lasco,
Lasco wrote:But I want to ask..Did you ever think it was coming from your stomach?I mean a doctor mentioned that it could be the air or some gas stuff coming from from my stomach.
I did think that for a while, and my ENT even tried me on Nexium...but to no avail.
I did think hard on that but wonders why it does not smell as bad from my mouth as it does from my nostrils.
In retrospect I have pondered this fact about my case as well. I believe the answer is that the wisdom teeth lay furthest back in the jaw, the closest to the openings in the mouth that go up to the nostrils. Any odor released from that area will shoot right up to the nose immediately.
Also,did you have fillings in any of your teeth.I do have silver fillings,well not in the wisdom teeth.
Yes, I have several metallic fillings, one of which I replaced with non-metallic material before the exctraction and a few others since then. But I still have some metallic ones even now.
For me people coughed or seem to be allergic to me only when I breathe from my nose.At times I will pin my nostrils with something and breathe from my mouth and they did not cough or anything.Did it seem like they were always reacting because of the smell from your nose rather than from your mouth?
Yes, it did seem like that, and that's what led me to look for the cure up my nose (in the wrong direction as it turned out)..
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Hi Cured,

DO you know of anyone who got their wisdom teeth out without impaction?

Could that make any diference even if they were not impacted.

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Hi Cured,

Sorry for the many questions.

But I have another few please.

You mentioned that other people like ENT or Dentist werent always able to smell your bad breath before the extraction?

Could you always smell your own bad breath everyday before extraction?
Did you always get reaction everyday before extraction?

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DRASTIC wrote:DO you know of anyone who got their wisdom teeth out without impaction?
Personally, no, I don't.
Could that make any diference even if they were not impacted.
Theoretically speaking, impaction is the key issue in whether wisdom teeth are contributing to halitosis. If they're fully erupted like all the other teeth then strictly in terms of logic there shouldn't be any reason they'd be any more responsible than any other tooth in the mouth. With them being impacted, however (and it is in most cases only them that grow in impacted bringing up the rear in the jaw) that changes everything. But putting logic aside, they can only be excluded in one way: you can guess what that is.
You mentioned that other people like ENT or Dentist werent always able to smell your bad breath before the extraction?
My ENT and dentist were NEVER able to smell the odor before I had them out. That was a large part of the curse of it all: the only people who could help me couldn't smell it on the occasions I went to them to be tested. It was enough to drive one absolutely insane.
Could you always smell your own bad breath everyday before extraction?
I could always make myself smell it by rubbing my nose really hard or the like. But no, it wasn't like I could always be walking around smelling my own foul breath in my nose. On a few occasions I could, but not always. For the most part it would take other people to react to make me aware.
Did you always get reaction everyday before extraction?
I would get some reactions every day yes, but not every time. It was like a hit or miss phenomenon. It'd be bothersome to just about everyone a certain time of the day, then an hour or so later it would seem acceptable...then go back to being bad for a while and so on. It was quite the nightmare.
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