Halitosis
To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool - Dejan Stojanovic
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This Small Connected Device Helps Monitor Your Oral Health
This the renaissance of the quantified self. Just when you think you’ve read about or tried every device and app out there that helps monitor your health, a new one appears. According to a Q4 RocketFuel survey in 2014, 31% currently of US consumers are using a quantified self tool to track their health and fitness, food, diet, sleep and/or mood.
This time it’s all about oral health. Let’s look at some facts. Many medical experts believe that oral health is a window into your overall health. According to the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, people with poor oral hygiene may be at a greater risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease than those with good oral hygiene. The American Diabetes…
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The History and Science Behind Your Terrible Breath
Persistent mouth-stink has been dousing the flames of passion for millennia. Why haven’t we come up with a cure?
Help! It’s Time to Talk to Our Friend About His Bad Breath
I’ve been in several conversations now where other members of the group have brought up our friend’s teeth, but everyone has said the same thing: They feel awkward bringing it up with him and know he’ll probably react badly.
How to Beat Morning Breath
What causes it? Why does it have to exist? Why hasn’t a clever person in America or China figured out how to kill it yet?
How marketers convinced us that we all need mint to fix our bad breath
Modern society provides us with all sorts of breath-freshening products: toothpaste, mints, mouthwash, gum, and even weird, translucent strips that dissolve in your mouth. All these products have one thing in common: their default flavor is mint.
Your Super-Healthy Diet Is Making Your Breath Stink
When carb intake drops below 30 grams per day, the body gets rid of organic compounds, known as ketones, through the mouth, a process which can smell pretty gnar to those around you.
Fast Food Could Be The Reason Your Breath Stinks
Researchers strongly suggest that, before you pick up your toothbrush, you should pick up a piece of fresh fruit or a bowl of vegetables.
FYI: How Does Chewing Gum Freshen Breath?
And which gum gives you the sweetest-smelling breath?
Here’s Where Your Bad Breath Is Actually Coming From
According to a TED-Ed video narrated by professor and bad breath researcher Mel Rosenberg, all comes down to the activity of bacteria in the mouth.
How to Explain Bad Breath to Your Kids
While bad breath can be entertaining and comical, it is also important to discuss bad breath with your kids as well as teach them to be conscious of it. Drinking water and doing the daily routine of brushing, flossing and rinsing should help keep most children’s breath fresh.
How to Tame Bad Breath
Hydration, brushing and gum-chewing beat odor-causing bacteria.
Our Understanding of Bad Breath Bacteria Has Come a Long, Long Way
Bad breath studies and bacteriology have gone hand in hand for a long time. That’s why today’s specialty breath fresheners offer such targeted treatments — they are the result of decades, sometimes even centuries, of research into what causes halitosis.
The Quest to Slay Bad Breath!
The biggest question I get is what causes bad breath. Truthfully, there are a lot of different causes — food, tobacco, dry mouth, alcohol, poor oral hygiene... the list is almost endless. But truthfully, most of those are precursors to the real culprit — volatile sulfur compounds (VSCs).
This Small Connected Device Helps Monitor Your Oral Health
Mint tells you what you may or may not already know — how effective your brushing actually is and if that leads or doesn’t lead to bad breath. Through the app, the Mint device also gives you advice based on your oral health grade and tracks your progress.
Breathometer
Your breath holds important clues to your oral health. Understand what’s really happening in your mouth with Mint, the first smart oral health monitor that fits in the palm of your hand. Now available in the U.S., UK, and Ireland. Mint empowers your decisions with sophisticated breath analysis and insightful data.
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