What If Mouthwash, Mints, and Gums Don’t Work?

By Richard A. Miller, DDS

National Breath Center®

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What If Mouthwash, Mints, and Gums Don’t Work?

If you are one of the 65 million Americans with bad breath, you’ve probably tried most of the products on the market to treat your problem. Maybe, you’ve even spent thousands on Internet products that make big claims but only offer temporary relief. You’re not alone.

Americans spend over $10 Billion on breath products every year. According to Consumer Reports, these products last on average of two hours. And Consumer Reports now says that there has been no improvement in these products since 1992.

If you have chronic bad breath, the truth is that every product you can purchase to cover it up is doomed to fail. Why? Because they cannot penetrate all the way into the biofilm on the tongue where the odors come from.

On the top of the tongue is a biofilm coating, called a bio film,  that contains a number of different elements. These can be broken down into three types.

First is the bacteria. The bacteria that cause bad breath live without air. So under the very bottom layers of the biofilm, odor causing bacteria live, and many times that biofilm is a quarter inch thick. The second part of the biofilm is the food supply for the bacteria. This consists of dead skin cells, dead blood cells, mucous, proteins, and all types of debris. In short, the bacteria + their food = waste products – their “poop” which we smell as bad breath.

So, for any product to be effective long term, like mouthwash or mints, and even tongue scrapers or cleaners, they must penetrate to the lowest levels of the biofilm on the tongue. Unfortunately, there is no product that can do this. That’s why you must keep chewing gum or sucking on mints. So, where to turn?

Fortunately, there is a process available that professionally removes the biofilm layer on the tongue called Tongue Rejuvenation^®.

Tongue Rejuvenation, a painless treatment,  was discovered in 1993 by a local dentist. Combining all the research he could find at the Georgetown University School of Medicine, some dating back to the 1800s, he pieced together a technique that eliminated biofilm down to the very base of the tongue. The result was a clean, healthy tongue with no more biofilm and no more odor. In essence,

No Bio Film = No Odor

However, instead of removing the bio film layer, what has become popular are the professional strength mouthwashes available on the internet and sold in dental offices. However, even with their double strength, they too cannot penetrate the depths of the biofilm where the bacteria constantly spew out their waste. Tongue Rejuvenation remains the only way to eliminate biofilm – the cause of bad breath.

Research has clearly shown that 90-95% of bad breath comes from the mouth. If you have had bad breath for some time, and it is affecting your life, consider the cure – Tongue Rejuvenation.