Bad Breath Halitosis Forum

Israel is a lovely place to visit, butI would still suggest that you try to confirm that you do have bad breath and if so, that it is coming from what is left of your tonsils. Travelling all this way when you are unsure of the diagnosis seems a bit risky to me.

Antibiotics usually provide relief from bad breath for a couple of weeks, then the body is usually repopulated by the same kinds of bacteria, and the odor returns. It doesn't sound logical that taking antibiotics can lead to bad breath, especially since Candida are not considered microorganisms that ...

The answer to hungry girl is tha, yes you are brave and on the right track: if an adult in your family or close friend can smell bad odor when you breathe out or count aloud, you probably do have a breath problem. IBut if the adult cannot smell anything, then you may not have a 'chronic' breath ...

A lot of recent posts on various topics dealt with the issue of measuring one's own breath. This is very difficult, not because of habituation, but because people have trouble translating what they smell to what others are smelling. If you smell some floss (yes, flossers have somewhat less breath ...

Some experts are not in favor of prolonged chewing of gum. So my advice is to chew gum for 4-5 minutes, the mastication and saliva production will probably reduce cases of oral malodor for at least an hour, at which time you can chew another piece for a couple of minutes.
Again, it may be a mistake ...

I've just been busy with other matters.
What you refer to as the lingual tonsils (or posterior tongue dorsum) is the major site of bad breath, according to Grapp (1933) and most researchers since then . I'm not in favor of scraping there or anywhere on the tongue, rather, I recommend gently sweeping ...

I've often been asked that question over the years. When we kiss, we do transfer bacteria, but since each of us has a more-or-less stable bacterial composition in our mouths, the chance that new microbes will gain a foothold is rather small in my opinion. Having said that, there are a few kinds of ...

I was asked by Austuser regarding tonsils. Most researchers consider the tonsils responsible for about 3-6% of cases of bad breath. There is practically no research on this subject, and little to go on. One researcher presses the tonsils to smell the exudate and thinks that the tonsils are a major ...