Bad Breath Halitosis Forum

Lack of free time makes me not a best member of this forum. What I noticed that I used to feel like "foreign body" in my throat mainly on left side and quite often i had mushy, whitish staf - stones but not any more and when i tried to massage the back of my thorat with a q-tip to pull out...

Hello everybody I had my cryptolysis done November - I was abroad for a month. I have no problems any more with my BB however still have a habit of using tongue scaraper and listerine or some mouthwash. I work 7am -7pm so I hardly have spare time but I`ll try to set up this "post laser" in...

I feel so much better now - my pain is gone and my BB is gone too. I still try to do my routine mouth hygiene with tongue scraping, mouthwash -I try not to drink coffee, chocolate etc. I had my cryptolysis about 3-4 weeks ago. My relatives initially said it was awful - just after procedure but at th...

Still hurts and as per ENT follow up the area is still swollen. BB is not completetely gone because swelling and irritation of that area. He told that BB gets worse just after the procedure and slowly goes down. But because my crypts were quite deep it might be 2-3more weeks until i see the diferenc...

this is the reference for the article

Photomed Laser Surg. 2006 Oct;24(5):630-6. Links
CO(2) Laser Cryptolysis by Coagulation for the Treatment of Halitosis.Rio AC, Passos CA, Nicola JH, Nicola EM.
Faculty of Medical Sciences, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil.

I have not asked my doc if I can give his/her name to this forum but when I see him/her I ll ask. Dr Finkelstein was the first one who published cryptolysis in 2004 but it does not mean there were not studies or case reports about this problem in med literature. From idea to get study done and then ...

Yes my doc was really familliar with medical literature on halitosis especially from ENT perspective. He knew not only Finkelstein but also other publications - I like brazilian paper in English with pictures and explanations of cryptolysis technique. Yes I had cryptolysis - but he told me becasue i...

I had a cryptolysis couple days ago. Dr Krespi is not the only one in US who is an expert in this procedure. There are others - and they accept insurance so co-pay 10-20$ and no charge for laser is quite competitive. My tonsils still hurt little bit, and badbreath gets worse 1-2 weeks after procedur...