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Easy Eight Rules for Great Kissable Breath
By April MacIntyre Jun 13, 2011, 23:53 GMT

Breath management is made easier if you apply easy to follow prevention steps to insure good oral hygiene and health. There are many quality over the counter oral hygiene aids too that you can use daily.
Breath management is made easier if you apply easy to follow prevention steps to insure good oral hygiene and health. There are many quality over the counter oral hygiene aids too that you can use daily.
This article provides you with medically sound tips to prevent halitosis. Read these tips and put them into work; you should notice an improvement in your breath.
1. Drink water often and regularly.
Dry mouth blues: Anaerobic bacteria that break down food remnants into odoriferous volatile sulphur compounds (VSCs) like a dry mouth. Water flushes and cleans internally and has no calories. Problem solved. Invest in good quality sugar-free gum to keep mouth fluids moving too.
2. Dentist visits-twice a year.
You must brush and floss twice daily, yes floss twice daily, or more after every meal. See your dentist for a cleaning twice a year. Just do it.
Scrape your tongue while you are at it, they sell scrapers at CVS and other drug stores.
3. Make sure you are healthy and disease free
Gum disease or other soft tissue ailments can cause bad breath. See a doctor too, along with your dentist to get checked out.
4. Avoid cheap over the counter mouthwashes
They contain excessive amounts of alcohol - which dries out the mouth. See the first tip. You can make simple home mouth rinses inexpensively LINK
5. Diet, herbs
Fresh parsley, fennel seed, rosemary and aloe vera are genius natural ingredients to use.
Dump sugar from the diet, as it feed all bacteria. and eliminate as many animal products from your diet as well. Invest in a juicer like the Breville Juicer - reviewed here.
6. Crunch and chew
Use your teeth, eat fruits, nuts and vegetables such as apple, cashews, pistachios, celery, cucumber and carrots as snacks and try to avoid sticky soft foods.
7. Oral Sex caution
If you are sexually active, make sure your partner(s) use dental dams, condoms and also that they practice good oral hygiene. The mouth is full of bacteria, and many infections, viral disease like Herpes and other issues can be transmitted this way. Same for having unprotected oral sex - you don't lick the sidewalk for a good reason!
8. Dump coffee for tea
Tea - whether black, red, white or green - is 100% better for you than coffee. Coffee coats the tongue and creates a vile breath - and tea provides a natural antiseptic plaque fighting environment for the teeth.

Recommended over the counter items Monsters and Critics has tried and found to help include dry mouth buster Orazyme Mouthwash, purse staple Binaca AEROblast in Spearmint and Cinnamon and old school tongue touch Binaca Drops in Peppermint.
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