I just recently found this site while browsing around before the night before my surgery to remove my wisdom teeth (Thursday Jan. 15th, 2009). With that said, I was very optimistic about this procedure after reading Cured and Humbled's post about wisdom teeth leading to the cure of their bad breath. For about two years now I have had a foul odor coming from my bottom left gum all the way towards the back of my bite. This odor would invade my mouth and give me the worst breath ever! The location of the smell was actually the site of my impacted wisdom tooth.
Finally last week I decided to visit the dentist to get rid of this smell, which I suspected might be a rotten wisdom tooth from the get go. I am very outgoing, have had multiple relationships during the time I had BB so going into the dentist and simply saying "my breath smells like shit, and here is the source" was very easy for me. By the way, I encourage you all to do the same. These professionals see, smell and hear worse things on a daily basis and you should not be embarrassed of letting them know your condition! Anyways, if I would simply rub my finger over the gum, pull it out and smell it it would literally smell like poo-poo. Flossing in that area and smelling it afterward proved the same.
So, I had x-rays done and three different professionals (my DDS, oral hygienist, and oral surgeon) all agreed it was a pocket of bacteria that had accumulated over the years with stuck food and what not between my impacted wisdom tooth and back molar. Sweet! I was on the road to recovery already by locating the source of my doo-doo breath.
One week later I am happy to say that I am BB free! When I rub my finger over the same gum I was having trouble with I no longer smell fecal matter. I had a little self test with a pillow (lol don't ask) I have of mine that would let me know if I had bad breath, which was 85% of the time. But now my self test has yielded no bad breath and I have been doing it almost every 15 minutes because I am so happy! Even licking the back of my hand back when I had BB would yield a foul smell and now even this test accumulates none of the results I used to have before!
I cannot tell you how much of a relieve it is to have my BB cured. Like I said earlier, I am a very outgoing young man. I am 22, President of my Fraternity, have had multiple relationships over the past 2 years even with my BB, and have no problem striking up conversations with anyone (only if I had gum in!). But let me tell you my BB was debilitating mentally. I would constantly be conscious of my breath, which I could usually smell myself, and the motions of those around me when I talked. My little sister would always tell me my breath smelled like shit (not the nicest way to put it!) and my friends around me always poked fun. I always took it with a grain of salt and embraced my bad breath, which I encourage all those who suffer to do!
A funny story is this... My best friend and an old roommate in the Fraternity ALWAYS poked fun at my breath. I would poke fun back, of course, at myself and at his expense to. He would say things like "HEY! We have an old guy sitting on our front lawn (of our Fraternity house) who no one knows. You should just go talk to him cause your BB will scare him away!" This is just one example of many. But never once did I ever let my breath get in the way of what I want to do, either academically, socially or professional. I became a leader of over 100 men, I volunteer for St. Jude's Children Hospital, was a Big Brother, had various female partners, among many other accomplishments. All these accolades came while I had BB. And let me tell you my BB was BAD!!!
So what I am trying to get at is don't let your BB let you down or stop you from what you want to do. I am not trying to brag to make you all who still suffer feel bad, but to show you there is hope even if you still have BB. The only thing stopping you and YOU! I know it sounds cliche but by stepping back and looking what I did accomplish while my breath literally stunk like "shit" I can honestly say this whole experience make me a stronger, better person. I hope you can all find light in this terrible situation as I did and realize that you cannot let your BB control you or your dreams.
If you have any questions at all please post them here. I am here for questions about the wisdom teeth, moral support and life advice. No questions, expect maybe a scientific dental question
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