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Is the amount of white coating on your tongue (click)
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Phantasist tried a simple experiment where he tried scraping off and collecting his tongue coating. It had no smell.
This is also why you will often see people with thick white tongue coatings, but no bad breath.
When your tongue is heavily coated, your taste buds are buried beneith that coating and concentrated layer of foul chemicals. This gives an impression that your breath is far worse than it probably really is. Your senses can mess with your brain's perceptions of the true situation, that's why your own senses should not be relied upon entirely to detemine the status of your breath.
i used to be obsessed about my coating, trying to get every bit of white coating off thinking that would help. i remember when i first went to the dentist after knowing about my breath, asking my dentist if my tongue was normal, he said it was and showed me his tongue, his had white coating on his too but had no bad breath
also, there are certain parts of my tongue that is coated but i get no odour from
the literature, there appears to be no data that justify the necessity to clean the tongue on a regular basis. One exception would be oral malodour. It has become clear that in those cases the presence of a tongue coating is an important factor. Subsequently,when there is a complaint of oral malodour, tongue brushing on a regular basis, particularly aiming at removing the coating on the dorsum of the tongue, has found to be fruitful.
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However, I believe that the coating forms a protective layer for the anaerobic bacteria on the dorsal surface of the tongue, and therefore it would make sense to scrape it off before using an antibacterial rinse so that it can penetrate, otherwise it wouldn't even touch the anaerobes.