9YearsToFindCure wrote: This is Jimi Stein, just putting a note here, so you will really think about it going to this surgeon that 9 years mentioned it here, Larian or something like this. 9years was very fishy, scammy guy, he worked as a merketer in an office of oral surgeon, I think he still does. His story did not seem real to me....For Surgeon it is a money day, when you have to pay him 10000 usd per surgery.....and I suspect this is what was going on, they wanted to profit from us, dont forget....9years does marketing for oral surgeon as a living....he might never had a bad breath at all.....he said this was the ultimate cure for all bad breath sufferers....sadly it was not...the people here were so scammed, they went to the same surgeon in Cali, Larian, that charged them 10000 usd for surgery.....and the result was.....bad breath was not gone, it got even worse......now the members fro our board claim they choke on liquids and are sad about doing the surgery from the start.....members are Jess and few others...BEWARE people can be monsters...when the money is the question....10000 usd is a lot of money.....
Hello, how can you know if you have tonsil stones? I cannot even see my tondils but my naturopath told me they grew back.
She was useless by the way. Just gave me probiotics and told me to restrict my diet which didnt help
Thank you
I know how most of you are suffering and I want to share my story because I believe it may contain the answer for many of you.
I had braces in my mid twenties and once they came off in 2005, I started having bad breath, PND, white tongue and discovered that I had tonsil stones. I saw my ENT and he said the only way to resolve this problem was a tonsillectomy. I had the operation performed within weeks of finding out and went through the 10 days of excruciating pain, which is what it takes to recover from this surgery as an adult. A month or so after the surgery the tonsil stones were gone, but my wife told me that the halitosis was still there. I was devastated. I went back to the ENT but he had no answers. Since then, I've tried everything from diet, Therabreath, nasal sprays, nasal steroids, H. Pylori test is clear, tongue scrapers, mouth washes, multiple ENTs, you name it and I've done it. Needless to say, it was hard to live like this. I had almost accepted that I would have halitosis for life, but I'm not the type to give up so in 2014, with a renewed fervor to find myself a cure to this miserable state, I finally did. It is the ****ing "Adenoids". In 2005, I had even asked my original ENT if I should have them out and he said no. He had said they shrink down to almost nothing as an adult and he didn't see any inflammation in them. It's complete bullshit and he was dead wrong. The inflammation and tonsil stone smelling, nasty bacteria infested tissue is under the adenoids. They are a type of tonsil too (pharyngeal tonsils) and have their own tiny tonsil stones that are undetectable without a CT and have no clinical symptoms. I found another new ENT and he was willing to remove them for me. The surgery and recovery was painless. After the surgery, my cauterized adenoids crusted off and my bad breath was gone, just like that. Bottom line, if you have halitosis and any kind of tonsil stones, insist on getting your tonsils and adenoids removed. If your ENT won't do it, then tell him to ***k off and find one that will. It saved my life!
If you want to talk or have a question for me, feel free to reach out.
Here are the links that pointed me in the direction of my cure. But the decision to have the 2nd surgery was mine alone and done on faith because I had a sense that the smell, white tongue, and PND were coming from the adenoid region.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17372553
viewtopic.php?t=2770 
that sucks that it has made you situation worse. I now believe it should only be done for people who had actual tonsil stones - cuz atleast it would be beneficial for that aspect
:)