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Can Teeth Whitening Eliminate Bad Breath?

Bad breath or halitosis is an embarrassing condition. Fortunately, it is a curable one. You may want to determine if you have bad breath of not. But you cannot do this by simply smelling your breath. Why? Because your own nose filters out your own smell. What you can do is to get a spoon, turn it upside down and scrap the back most portion of your tongue.

Touching this portion may want you to vomit so do it gently, but still make sure that you are able to get something. That something is a whitish matter. It contains a lot of bacteria. Smell it. That is the odor that other people will smell when you talk to them.

Can teeth whitening remove that awful smell. It would depend on the cause of the bad breath. Teeth whitening procedures can lessen bad breath or cannot do anything about it all. You must remember that the cause of most halitosis is the bacteria that not only lived on the teeth but also thrive on the tongue and other parts of the mouth.

If the cause of bad breath is a certain kind of food, such as garlic and onion, you don’t need teeth whitening or any other dental procedure to remove the odor. That odor is caused by the products of digestion. You may just need to wait a day or two for your body to completely excrete these products.

If the cause of bad breath is smoking, it means that tar, nicotine, and other obnoxious smelling materials have lodged in your teeth, tongue, gums, and inner cheeks. Teeth whitening procedures, along with conscientious oral hygiene can reduce that “smoker’s breath”. But, let’s face it, there is only one effective way of eliminating that kind of smell. That is, you must quit smoking.

If the cause of bad breath is xerostomia or “dry mouth”, it implies that your mouth does not produce enough saliva to wash away the foul smelling bacteria. The mouth becomes dry while we sleep and this is why the “morning breath” is not pleasant. The mouth also becomes dry when a person gives a long speech.

And the mouth can become dry when a person is taking medications, such as antihistamines and diuretics. If this is the cause, check with your dentist first about the possible effects of teeth whitening for you. If the procedure makes your mouth drier, then avoid teeth whitening.

If the cause of bad breath is periodontal disease (also known as gum disease), this can be addressed when you have your teeth whitened. Your dentist, before proceeding to the whitening process, must make sure that your gums are healthy. He will treat the gums first before he will whiten your teeth.

Before assuming that teeth whitening can help you solve your halitosis, determine first the cause of bad breath. With a dentist’s expertise, you will know whether teeth whitening can help or not.