SEEING IS BELIEVING

There are ways you can objectively smell your own breath. However, you have to take a slightly indirect route.

Try this technique. Lick your wrist, wait about five seconds while the saliva dries somewhat, and then smell it. What do you think?
That’s the way you smell. Or, more precisely, that’s the way the end of your tongue smells (your tongue’s “anterior” portion). How was it? Did you pass this first check?

Now try this second experiment. It will check the odor associated with the back portion of your tongue (your tongue’s “posterior” aspect).

Take a spoon, turn it upside down, and use it to scrape the very back portion of your tongue. (Don’t be surprised if you find you have an active gag reflex.) Take a look at the material that has been scrapped off, usually it’s a thick whitish material. Now, take a whiff of it. Not so bad? Pretty nasty? This smell, as opposed to the sampling from the anterior portion of your tongue, is probably the way your breath smells to others.

Just as your experimentation has suggested, for most people the fundamental cause of bad breath is the whitish coating that covers the surface of the posterior portion of their tongue. More accurately, bad breath is caused by the bacteria that live in this coating. (The second most common fundamental cause of bad breath is bacteria that accumulate elsewhere in a person’s mouth.)

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Bad breaths are in most cases caused by problems in the mouth. Often a visit to your dentist will solve the problem. If dental treatments are required to eliminate the odor it could be painful and expensive because you may require several visits. And of course not all of us are that comfortable in the dentist chair.

If no oral cause of your bad breath can be identified by you dentist, you may need too seek a specialist in breath odor or visit other health professionals. This can also be expensive too.

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Yesterday we talk about detect our bad breath, now we will talk how to test our bad breath to a doctor

Organoleptic testing for bad breath.
Judging a person’s breath by way of organoleptic testing simply means that the researcher performing the breath evaluation has used their sense of smell (their nose) as the means for making a determination. Historically this method of breath testing has been a frequent choice among dental researchers. Noses are readily available, inexpensive to obtain and operate, and to their credit, noses can detect up to 10,000 different smells.
One of the problems associated with using organoleptic testing is that this technique is not totally objective. Another is that factors other than just breath odors can and do influence organoleptic evaluations. As examples, research has shown that factors such as hunger, menstrual cycle, head position, and the degree of attentiveness and expectation can each influence a judge’s interpretation of what they smell. Additionally, consumption or use of coffee, tea, juice, tobacco products and scented cosmetics by subjects prior to their evaluation can influence the testing.
As for quantifying the organoleptic measurement itself, what exactly does constitute a weak, strong, or average level of bad breath? Will each judge participating in the research be able to make equivalent comparisons? Complicating things even more, as we all know, when we are repeatedly exposed to a bad odor our sense of smell acclimates to the odor and therefore loses much of its sensitivity. Breath malodor that seems exceedingly objectionable at the beginning of testing may seem quite less so as the evaluation continues.

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If our noses can’t reliably help us judge the quality of our own breath, how can we determine if we do have bad breath? One solution is to ask the opinion of a spouse or significant other. If you don’t feel you can ask them, ask your dentist or hygienist at your next dental appointment, after all, evaluating oral conditions is part of their job. If you find this type of question too personal to ask an adult, don’t overlook asking a child. As we all know, sometimes the least inhibited and most honest responses come from children
How is your breath? Not sure? No doubt each of us has, at some point, unwittingly had bad breath only to be subsequently embarrassed by the reactions of others in response to it.
For any individual, the exact status of their own breath can be difficult to ascertain. The reason for this lies in the fact that the oral cavity is connected to our nose by way of an opening which lies in the back of our mouth (in the region of our soft palate). Since noses tend to filter out and ignore background odors, it filters out and ignores the quality of our own breath. This means that it is quite possible for a person to have bad breath, yet not be aware of it

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