what causes bad breath?

Answer 1

A bacteria called streptomyces. If you don't brush your teeth often enough you will smell it and taste it and it is a bacetia that is normally present in the mouth. Good oral hygiene brushing, flossing and even gargling with mouthwash will minimize the bacteria that causes bad breath odor. Brushing your tongue also helps get rid of it.

Answer 2

I cannot believe this wasn't emphasized more. Virtually all bad breath comes from the TONGUE. If you brush your teeth and rinse your mouth, you could still have disgusted breath within a couple hours, easily. Brushing the tongue lightly, or better yet, getting an electric tongue cleaner while brushing, followed by mouthwash will abolish bad breath.

While true that if you just brush your tongue, some bad breath can come from other things, it's not nearly as prominent as the tongue. The one exception is if you eat something very offensive, your burps will smell foul, but that is only burps, and not all the time.

A strong breath mint or gum typically removes the odor causing agents from the tongue or masks them for a period of time, if you can't clean it at the moment.

Answer 3

cavities can cause bad breath...a cold can too and also if your stomach is like tore up can cause bad breath too...if none of these i said are the cause then it has to be the way you brush your teeth .....you need to floss,and brush and be sure to brush your tongue ,a lot of people do not know this and germs can accumalate on the tongue..You need to brush in the morning and floss and also in the evening,sometime you can,t at nonn,but twice per day is fine....also what you eat such as anything with onions are garlic....For a quick fix,you can chew on a twig of parsley or suck a little lemon and that will do in a quicky..

Answer 4

If you don't brush your teeth often enough you will smell it and taste it and it is a bacteria that is normally present in the mouth.
I think the bacteria is called streptomycin. Sometimes it is also caused by the bed bugs that crawl in your mouth while you sleep...well I hope this helps.

Answer 5

sometimes people have tonsil stones, look it up on the Internet,,it looks like white yukky stuff on your tonsils,,it is a build up of food particles or sinus drainage that gets stuck in the sides of the back of your throat.!! some people don't even know they have it,,and i only know they want you to gargle with 1/2 peroxide & 1/2 water,?? if someone says your breath smells like poo, then you probably got them , it ?? again check the internet,!!

Answer 6

By drinking plenty of water and brushing
your teeth regularly, you can prevent bad
breath. I found the home remedies at
http://aches.in/badbreath.html useful

Answer 7

bad breath is caused by the release of methane and sulfur compounds by anaerobic and aerobic bacteria that lives off food buildup called tartar around the gum lining and as well as the tongue surface......

Answer 8

bad breath is bad grems and what you eat left in oyur mouth that makes it smell bad

Answer 9

When your mouth is dry and you don't drink fresh water much.
Bacteria is one of the causes too.

Answer 10

licking an a s s hole can give ya undesirable breath