Chronic Bad Breath

What Is Chronic Bad Breath?

Chronic bad breath is a foul odor coming out of your mouth most of the time. It may be due to bacteria in your mouth digesting food stuck between your teeth, or inflammation of the gums, or another medical condition, or you haven’t eaten anything and your stomach is empty.

How Do You Know If You Have Chronic Bad Breath?

If you always have a bad taste in your mouth, you probably have chronic bad breath. The taste comes from decaying food particles stuck between teeth or below the gum line. This cause of chronic bad breath is easy to cure: floss after every meal and then brush your teeth.

Do You Have a Coating on Your Tongue?

A white or yellow coating on your tongue may indicate that you have chronic bad breath. Often, you will get a white coating on your tongue from dehydration. Easy solution, drink water. That will also tend to rinse the food particles out of your mouth.

Would You Like A Mint?

Do people often offer you a mint or a piece of gum? That may be because they can’t stand talking to you until your bad breath odor is masked by the mint. People are too polite to tell you that your breath stinks directly. They are telling you indirectly, listen carefully.

Do People You Talk To, Step Back?

If you are standing close to someone, talking to them, do they step back? Even make a face? That is a sure sign of chronic bad breath.

Make a good impression on people, why have them like you in spite of your breath? Fixing the chronic bad breath may make you healthier too.