My Story & Cure
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 1:45 am
Hello everyone, I'd like to share my own story about battling bad breath. I'll be honest it is probably due to my laziness keeping up with my oral hygiene, but when I was young I could really care less about it, I would just wake up and throw on whatever to wear and head out the house to school. Little did I know the years of social suffering I'd have to edure. It was brought to my attention in 3rd grade when I tried so hard to get these 2 girls to become my friend, but in the end was shut down when they told me "your breath stinks". It was pretty bad when I reached middle school, I have taught myself to hold my breath and slow my breathing so that don't offend people. I became very introverted and quiet. In summer school I overheard someone telling another person "she stinks..". It got even worse in high school.. I literally had 0 friends, NEVER ate lunch in the cafeteria, and wreaked terror to the person I was sitting next to everytime I entered the room. They would fan the pages in their book like they are looking through it or have thier arm up on the desk to block the side of their face that I was on.
I was so desperate to do something to fix it, but to no avail. I would brush my teeth for 10 minutes and tounge and then use mouthwash but it would quickly go away and be replaced with a terrible dry bitter taste within 10 mins of having my mouth shut. I even bought gum in bulk and chewed on it everyday I went to school. I happend to be grouped up with the 2 loud mouth girls in the class and they told me straight out "your breath stinks" and laughed, I was embarassed and just looked down. I was so angry and always wondered 'why me?', all I've ever wished for since the beginning was to have fresh breath.
Luckily some brave soul came along and we ended up dating for a year. I never allowed him to french kiss me, because I didnt want him to crawl in his skin having his tounge inside my rancid mouth. Even during the loving he would always turn his face away or have me face away from him. Thank god he never mentioned anything about my BB, i think i'd just die if he did. The relationship ended and I was alone thinking that no one is ever going to want to be with me and that id be alone forever. I did have a few men who were interested in me come talk to me, but then i'd see thier face as they recoil back from my BB. It crippled me from having a social life, getting a job, and even going to college because I couldnt stand offending people with my BB and concentrated on it more then what the teacher was teaching us.
I had a wisdom tooth removed which was adding more to the cause of bad breath, when it was pulled out it smelled putrid and rotten so I was glad to get that out of there, but I still had bad breath.
The breaking point for me was when I had random children - on seperate occasions cover thier noses or hide it under thier shirts as I spoke. I just told myself that I have been a victim for far too long and that I've had enough and will not go through the rest of my life living in this humiliation. I decided to get my teeth professionally cleaned, It had been SO long since I've had them looked at by a dentist. I asked my mom about it and I was insured under her name, so I booked an appointment at my local dentists office to get them cleaned.
Upon examination I was having gum pockets in my back molars of about 5mm & 6mm and bleeding upon probing meaning periodontitis, a terrible gum disease that causes many things one of them being bad breath. The hygenist was even shocked that I had pockets that deep because she had complimented me on my strong nicely aligned teeth just moments before the probing. She had to do a deep cleaning called scaling and root planing which is when she cleans UNDERNEATH the gumline where the tarter and bacteria buildup is (where ur toothbrush cant get to) and then regular cleaning on my other teeth (only above the gumline). During the cleaning I could feel grains in my mouth, kind of like if you have sand in your mouth. That was all the built up crap that was underneath my gumline giving me BB. The whole process was done in about 2.5 hours with no numbing, it wasnt painful.
The next day I could definitley feel the difference because I do not have a bad taste in my mouth anymore and have been babying my teeth and making sure to brush, floss, and mouthrinse it like it was my religion.
I don't have bad breath anymore and it was gone overnight with one simple soulution. I have wasted so much of my life with something that could of been easily cured with a visit to my dentist and I am very thankful that I know now that it was because of my gums and not any internal issues. I know that for some people it is not so easily treated like mines was, but please go to your dentist and have them measure your gum pocket depths and get a deep cleaning, thats where you should start first. Then maintain a healthy oral routine to prevent the tartar from building up again!
Thank you for reading!
I was so desperate to do something to fix it, but to no avail. I would brush my teeth for 10 minutes and tounge and then use mouthwash but it would quickly go away and be replaced with a terrible dry bitter taste within 10 mins of having my mouth shut. I even bought gum in bulk and chewed on it everyday I went to school. I happend to be grouped up with the 2 loud mouth girls in the class and they told me straight out "your breath stinks" and laughed, I was embarassed and just looked down. I was so angry and always wondered 'why me?', all I've ever wished for since the beginning was to have fresh breath.
Luckily some brave soul came along and we ended up dating for a year. I never allowed him to french kiss me, because I didnt want him to crawl in his skin having his tounge inside my rancid mouth. Even during the loving he would always turn his face away or have me face away from him. Thank god he never mentioned anything about my BB, i think i'd just die if he did. The relationship ended and I was alone thinking that no one is ever going to want to be with me and that id be alone forever. I did have a few men who were interested in me come talk to me, but then i'd see thier face as they recoil back from my BB. It crippled me from having a social life, getting a job, and even going to college because I couldnt stand offending people with my BB and concentrated on it more then what the teacher was teaching us.
I had a wisdom tooth removed which was adding more to the cause of bad breath, when it was pulled out it smelled putrid and rotten so I was glad to get that out of there, but I still had bad breath.
The breaking point for me was when I had random children - on seperate occasions cover thier noses or hide it under thier shirts as I spoke. I just told myself that I have been a victim for far too long and that I've had enough and will not go through the rest of my life living in this humiliation. I decided to get my teeth professionally cleaned, It had been SO long since I've had them looked at by a dentist. I asked my mom about it and I was insured under her name, so I booked an appointment at my local dentists office to get them cleaned.
Upon examination I was having gum pockets in my back molars of about 5mm & 6mm and bleeding upon probing meaning periodontitis, a terrible gum disease that causes many things one of them being bad breath. The hygenist was even shocked that I had pockets that deep because she had complimented me on my strong nicely aligned teeth just moments before the probing. She had to do a deep cleaning called scaling and root planing which is when she cleans UNDERNEATH the gumline where the tarter and bacteria buildup is (where ur toothbrush cant get to) and then regular cleaning on my other teeth (only above the gumline). During the cleaning I could feel grains in my mouth, kind of like if you have sand in your mouth. That was all the built up crap that was underneath my gumline giving me BB. The whole process was done in about 2.5 hours with no numbing, it wasnt painful.
The next day I could definitley feel the difference because I do not have a bad taste in my mouth anymore and have been babying my teeth and making sure to brush, floss, and mouthrinse it like it was my religion.
I don't have bad breath anymore and it was gone overnight with one simple soulution. I have wasted so much of my life with something that could of been easily cured with a visit to my dentist and I am very thankful that I know now that it was because of my gums and not any internal issues. I know that for some people it is not so easily treated like mines was, but please go to your dentist and have them measure your gum pocket depths and get a deep cleaning, thats where you should start first. Then maintain a healthy oral routine to prevent the tartar from building up again!
Thank you for reading!