Halitosis: Understanding Bad Breath?
Halitosis(bad breath) can be real or imagined.
When real, its most often caused by a combination of food lodged between the teeth and poor oral hygiene that results in gum disease.It may also be due to decay and germs in damaged teeth.
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Odors from foods that contain volatile oils, such as onions and garlic, pass from the bloodstream into the lungs and are exhaled.
Oral hygiene cannot remove these odors.
Certain diseases also produce bad breath.
Liver failure- mousy odor
Kidney failure-Urine like odor
Severe uncontrolled Diabetes-Acetone breath like(nail polish remover)
Lung abscess (a collection of pus)-severe halitosis
A tumour in the esophagus/stomach may cause foul smelling liquid or gas be regurgitated into the mouth.
Halitosis that is imagined is called psychogenic halitosis, in which a person believes that his breath smells bad when it actually does not.
This problem may occur in people who tend to exaggerate normal body sensations.
Sometimes psychogenic halitosis is caused by a serious mental disorder such as schizophrenia.
A person with obsessional thoughts may have an overwhelming sense of feeling dirty.
REMEDIES:
1.Physical causes can be corrected or removed. For example- people can stop or avoid eating garlic,onions and other spiced foods and can improve their oral hygiene.
2.Daily use of a tongue scraper to clean the top and the back of the tongue is effective.
3.Many mouthwashes are available but , their usage is best justified after a couple of professional round of cleaning(scaling) and polishing.
4.The mouthwashes need to have chlorophyll.
5.The effects of the topical mouth rinses do not last for more than couple of hours.
6.Psychogenic halitosis can be treated with doctors reinforcing the non-existence of halitosis.
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