How do you get rid of bad breath?!


Question:

How do you get rid of bad breath?

i tell my sister to go brush her teeth cause her breath stinks, she tells me that doesn't help...... can you tell me what does it take to stop her bad breath? , besides sucking peppermints all day!!


Answers:

Start with a professional cleaning and evaluation in your dental office. This will get rid of odor coming from deposits on your teeth and determine if cavities or periodontal disease is causing your odor. After that, you have to maintain your clean mouth at home.

Floss, brush your teeth, scrape your tongue, rinse with a mouthwash of your choice. The "chlorine dioxide" mouthwashes may be better at eliminating certain odors.

Avoid foods that make bad breath, like onions and garlic. If none of that helps, consult your doctor or dentist to see where the smell is coming from. If you do a search on the internet using "bad breath" as your search term, you will find almost five MILLION references. Here's a good place to start:

http://www.ada.org/public/topics/bad_bre...

The odors from garlic and onions enter your blood stream and then it takes a couple of DAYS before you breathe it all off. As you do this, you will continue to have bad breath. You can only use a mouthwash or breath mint (sugarless) as needed to mask the odor. I have read a lot of answers here saying to eat parsley to get rid of garlic breath, but I have no personal experience with this. Try it.

Look in the drug store next to the toothbrushes and you'll see a couple of different kinds of tongue scrapers. You can also use a spoon and a larger spoon, like a soup spoon works best. Just place the scraper as far back on your tongue as you can go, press down with light pressure and drag it to the tip of your tongue. You will probably need to do 3 swipes; left, center and right. Rinse with water for 10-15 seconds (such as after your tooth brushing when you are rinsing anyway), scrape your tongue, and then rinse again. The first couple of times you do this, you will be shocked at the gunk that comes out from between the fuzziness on your tongue and it might be a little sore, but (if you are using the right amount of pressure) the quantity will decrease and your tongue will not be sore anymore.




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