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