Thursday, February 14, 2008

End Of Tools In The Fight for Bad Breath Solution

Tongue cleaner or scraper: The tongue has a covering of tiny hair-like projections that make ideal traps for plaque and food particles. This is what is responsible for a funky smell from the mouth because the tongue can act as a breeding area for bad breath causing bacteria. For this reason, it cannot be stressed enough that our tongues must be scrapped to rid our tongue of the plaque like build up. The scraping of the tongue needs to be considered a must do part of our brushing ritual. A toothbrush can be used for this purpose but a tongue cleaner can be used more effectively because they are specifically designed to reach those hard to reach areas where bacteria are known to thrive.

Tongue cleaning tip: reaching into the back areas of the tongue is not an easy assignment and you must keep doing it for it to get easier. After a certain number of attempts, the gag reflex will not interfere with your cleaning. While applying some steady pressure, you can start on one side of the tongue and work your way to the other while using long strokes starting from the base down to the tip of the tongue.

You should be gentle while scraping from your tongue the bacterial plaque deposited there. There is a danger of destroying your tongue’s sensitive tissues which must be avoided. You can apply a coating of oxygenated toothpaste onto the tongue for about 90 seconds. This will kill off the bacteria that hide deep in the tongue because such bacteria thrive in this oxygen deprived setting.

Dental Floss: This will work side by side with the other tools at our disposal. Dental floss is meant to reach the hard to get to areas surrounding your gum and teeth where bacteria will thrive off of the food particles trapped there. Using just a tooth brush is usually not enough because these are extremely hard to reach areas that toothbrushes cannot reach.

A good, solid program of dental hygiene is certainly the most natural cure for bad breath. By use of the tools described above, the battle against bad breath can be fought and defeated.The topic of bad breath solution will be continued in the next posting. Until then,click here to find out more about it.

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