Chewing gum coating

Hooch · Post by **Hooch** » Wed May 26, 2010 8:03 am

Hi guys,

whenever I chew gum...which is pretty much whenever I am around fellow humans...I notice it leaves a white coating on my tongue...why is this? Could this be making the problem worse?

trouble · Post by **trouble** » Wed May 26, 2010 8:06 am

is it a permanent coating? or is the gum white and maybe just colours your tongue?

KeepTrying09 · Post by **KeepTrying09** » Wed May 26, 2010 11:36 am

Are you chewing sugar free gum?

Hooch · Post by **Hooch** » Wed May 26, 2010 12:48 pm

yeah def sugar free...and no the coatings not permanent....it will come off - other people don't have this prob though...and I'd heard that chewing gum sometimes makes things worse and I rely on it...

chiki89 · Post by **chiki89** » Wed May 26, 2010 5:20 pm

From what I've read..chewing too much gum can make your mouth dry ( because it overworks the salivary glands ) & allows bacteria to grow ..

halitosisux · Post by **halitosisux** » Wed May 26, 2010 8:03 pm

Didnt aydinmur say something about a constituent of chewing gum that bacteria love to break down?

Hooch · Post by **Hooch** » Thu May 27, 2010 9:12 am

maybe I should stop but I feel a little naked without it...if you know what I mean...and the dentist did say that the muscles at the back of my jaw were slightly over developed which made me laugh

What can I use instead...mints? Suck on a tube of toothpaste?

halitosisux · Post by **halitosisux** » Thu May 27, 2010 10:33 am

lol I know exactly what you mean about feeling naked without something in your mouth. I think it helps with the bad taste and increases saliva levels, whether its chewing gum or mints or just eating in general, and all of these help to make you feel as though your BB is reduced. Obviously this isnt the case for every type of BB. One thing I sometimes used to carry around with me for emergencies was a tube of toothpaste containing triclosan. I'd just put a glob in my mouth and rinse it around and it'd give me an hour or so of confidence

br · Post by br » Thu May 27, 2010 12:21 pm

halitosisux wrote:lol One thing I sometimes used to carry around with me for emergencies was a tube of toothpaste containing triclosan. I'd just put a glob in my mouth and rinse it around and it'd give me an hour or so of confidence

Please tell the name of the toothpaste you used and what precisely does triclosan do?
Thanks

trouble · Post by **trouble** » Thu May 27, 2010 12:44 pm

wikipedia:

Triclosan is an antibacterial and antifungal agent.

just look there for brand-names too. the one i use is colgate total. it seems to be unhealthy, but it's the toothpaste that works best for me (tried everything from therabreath to salt

).

halitosisux · Post by **halitosisux** » Thu May 27, 2010 12:55 pm

Yes, the nice thing about triclosan is that its chemical effect on bacteria lingers so you notice your breath doesnt get bad as quickly as it otherwise would do. Its similar to the effectiveness of zinc.

aydinmur · Post by **aydinmur** » Thu May 27, 2010 2:46 pm

trouble wrote: just look there for brand-names too. the one i use is colgate total. it seems to be unhealthy, but it's the toothpaste that works best for me (tried everything from therabreath to salt ).

Dear trouble
I read a study from Kleinberg I. Colgate Total is mostly ineffective on halitosis.
See: http://agizkokusu.net/garbage/sekil_12_03.jpg

Max vsc peak was measured 1700 ppb.
Its 1200 ppb, after brushing with Colgate Total. Not good.
-Murat Aydin

trouble · Post by **trouble** » Thu May 27, 2010 3:33 pm

very irritating. because thats the only toothpaste i "trust" a little longer...

trouble · Post by **trouble** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 8:41 am

hi!
i found this two studies, the first one's not so uptodate...

but it confirms the positive effect of triclosan + a copolymer.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10825862

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14692211

aydinmur · Post by **aydinmur** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 12:22 pm

trouble wrote:hi! i found this two studies, the first one's not so uptodate... but it confirms the positive effect of triclosan + a copolymer.

See this picture (from Kleinberg I and Copidily DM. Cystein challenge ... In Den J. 52:3 2002.) http://agizkokusu.net/garbage/colgatetotal.jpg

Initially 1700 ppb of halitosis decreases to 1200 pp with colgate total. This is not enough.

Try any zinc containing toothpaste.
-Murat Aydin