Start with a professional cleaning and evaluation in your dental office. This will get rid of odor coming from deposits on your teeth and determine if cavities or periodontal disease is causing your odor. After that, you have to maintain your clean mouth at home.
Floss, brush your teeth, scrape your tongue, rinse with a mouthwash of your choice. The "chlorine dioxide" mouthwashes may be better at eliminating certain odors.
Avoid foods that make bad breath, like onions and garlic. If none of that helps, consult your doctor or dentist to see where the smell is coming from.If you do a search on the internet using "bad breath" as your search term, you will find almost five MILLION references. Here's a good place to start:
http://www.ada.org/public/topics/bad_breath.asp
The odors from garlic and onions enter your blood stream and then it takes a couple of DAYS before you breathe it all off. As you do this, you will continue to have bad breath. You can only use a mouthwash or breath mint (sugarless) as needed to mask the odor. I have read a lot of answers here saying to eat parsley to get rid of garlic breath, but I have no personal experience with this. Try it.
Look in the drug store next to the toothbrushes and you'll see a couple of different kinds of tongue scrapers. You can also use a spoon and a larger spoon, like a soup spoon works best. Just place the scraper as far back on your tongue as you can go, press down with light pressure and drag it to the tip of your tongue. You will probably need to do 3 swipes; left, center and right. Rinse with water for 10-15 seconds (such as after your tooth brushing when you are rinsing anyway), scrape your tongue, and then rinse again. The first couple of times you do this, you will be shocked at the gunk that comes out from between the fuzziness on your tongue and it might be a little sore, but (if you are using the right amount of pressure) the quantity will decrease and your tongue will not be sore anymore.
2007-01-07 09:33:55
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answered by Jess 5
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Make sure you brush at least twice a day plus, and that you're brushing the plaque off your tongue, which some people are not smart enough to do. The tongue is responsible for bad breath in most people. You need to stick your tongue out and use the toothbrush to clean your tongue off from your throat area to the front. Then gargle with water and possibly mouthwash.
2007-01-07 09:09:19
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answered by justin s 3
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It could be due to enlaraged tonsils, or halitosis. Breath Rx is available from your dentist and will help alot. Also brushing/flossing regularly helps. Buy a tongue scrapper, use listerine this helps also. Good luck
2007-01-07 09:09:31
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answered by Anonymous
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undesirable breath might want to be brought about through various issues inclusive of undesirable dental hygiene, abdomen complications, or perhaps your sinuses. it would want to also be the fast time period results of what you position into your mouth alongside with espresso or perchance a really spiced foodstuff alongside with a warm pepper. The list of ingredients which have an result on your breath will be infinite, to say the least.
2016-10-17 00:08:36
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answered by fenn 4
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I take a vitamin supplement called alfalfa it sure helps with my husbands breath. He takes 3 in the morning and 3 at night.
2007-01-07 12:55:52
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answered by barbara c 2
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shy away from spicy foods then garggle listerine every morning when you wake -up chew some mint gums and dont forget always floss 3x aday and brush your teeth 3x aday
2007-01-07 09:14:40
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answered by Lionel M 5
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1) BRUSH YOUR TEETH!
2) FLOSS
3) get a tongue scraper
4) chew gum ALL THE TIME!! hehe thats what i do!
5) always have mints or tic tacs on hand oh and GUM! lol
im serious tho!
2007-01-07 09:09:14
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answered by *BR0WN EYESz <3 2
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when you brush your teeth scrub your tounge and rub some tooth past on your gums befor going out to cover it
2007-01-07 09:09:04
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answered by Hazel_Divine 2
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brush & floss twice a day & go to a dentist
2007-01-07 09:08:19
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answered by Anonymous
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Floss and brush, darlet.
2007-01-07 09:07:14
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answered by Lord Laughalot 1
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