Thursday, September 6, 2007

Bad breath cure

Brush your teeth in the morning, in the evening, and after every meal, especially after consuming milk products, fish and meat.

• Brush your tongue along with your teeth regularly.
• Wash the tongue with baking soda dissolved in warm water to reduce the acidity in your mouth making a less-friendly environment for the bacteria to grow.
• Brush and floss teeth regularly.
• Clean and replace your toothbrush regularly.
• Avoid mouthwash with dye and alcohol. Mouthwash containing cetylpyridinium chloride, chlorine dioxide, sodium chlorite or zinc may serve as an antibacterial agent, that can control the number of anaerobic bacteria in mouth.
• Parsley, coriander, basil, rosemary, thyme, wintergreen, cardamom seeds, cinnamon bark, clove, fennel or anise seeds are great breath fresheners. Slowly chew any of these herbs and allow the saliva to build up in your mouth.
• A recent study (2005) reported to the International Association for Dental research suggests that eating plain yogurt for six weeks can sweeten your breath because it reduces levels of offensive compounds produced by bacteria in the mouth by 80 percent. Rinse your mouth before sleeping with a glass of water with the juice of half a lemon added.
• Drink plenty of water throughout the day.
• Talk to your dentist about gum and teeth problems that might be the cause of bad breath.
• If you keep teeth, tongue and mouth clean, you will not suffer from the problem of bad breath. You should take all care in cleaning your teeth by using proper toothbrush and adopting correct brushing technique.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the tips. I have stopped using Listerine almost a month ago, because I did learn that it contained alcohol. I realized that my breath smelled worse after the stinging "clean" feeling was gone. What I've started using is Therabreath, it's not of the ingredients you mentioned and is all natural. I found it at http://drkatz.wordpress.com.