The Truth About Bad Breath

Dental Care Tip: Fill Your Cavities

We all know that cavities are holes in your teeth caused by tooth decay.  If you have cavities, run don’t walk to the dentist and set yourself up to get fillings.   Not only do they add to bad breath all by themselves, but cavities also provide a perfect place for those pesky food particles that bad-breath-causing bacteria feed on to lodge in your mouth.  Fillings help.

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What You Should Know About Gingivitis

Gingivitis is a mild form of periodontal disease. Its presence is indicated by a redness and/or swelling of the gum area. Those who have gingivitis usually have gums that bleed easily, too.

Gums generally bleed when slight pressure is applied such as after brushing or flossing. A change in the color of the gums is another indication that gingivitis may be present.

What makes gingivitis tricky to self-diagnose is that typically not much pain accompanies these symptoms. What also makes the problem go unnoticed by many is the fact that millions of Americans have some degree of gingivitis, especially those who are over age 35. Most don’t realize it isn’t ‘normal’ for their gums to bleed.

The most common cause of gingivitis is poor dental hygiene. When plaque is not completely removed from the teeth, it will begin to release toxins. These toxins irritate the gums. In just a few days, plaque that is

Clean Your Dentures Daily

Today’s Quick Tip: Clean Your Dentures Every Night

Dentures are like teeth in more ways than one; they not only help you eat, but they can cause bad breath if you don’t take care of them. You need to clean them regularly, every night is best, and be sure to use an anti-bacterial cleanser. That will stop bacteria from building up and giving you bad breath.

[Cav’s Note: Discover how you can effectively end Bleeding Gums, Gingivitis, Gum Disease & Bad Breath Naturally. Learn more here.

Dental Care: Fluoride and Your Teeth

Fluoride plays an important role in keeping teeth healthy by helping to prevent tooth decay. That’s why fluoride is added to many toothpastes and why fluoride treatment has become a routine part of dental cleanings.

Fluoride is actually derived from fluorine, a prevalent element found within the Earth’s crust. Fortunately, most people get the fluoride their teeth need from their drinking water.

How can fluoride help prevent tooth decay? It does so two ways. First, part of the fluoride that enters the bloodstream travels to the teeth and once there, helps strengthen enamel. The enamel is the translucent material that covers your teeth.

Stronger enamel helps minimize the effects of demineralization – the loss of minerals caused by the damaging acids the bacteria in plaque produce. Demineralization will weaken a tooth’s enamel over time, making it more susceptible to decay. As the enamel decays, it’s more susceptible to dental cavities.

The other way fluoride

How A Lowly Toothpick Can Help Your Bad Breath

Today’s Quick Tip: Use A Toothpick

Anything that remains in the mouth long enough can contribute to bad breath.  Sometimes you get something stuck in your mouth that brushing and flossing just don’t seem to be able to get rid of.  Try a toothpick, sometimes its rigid shape is what you need.    Once you get everything that doesn’t belong out of your mouth your breath will probably smell a lot better.

[Cav Says: Did you know that most commercial oral care products "cover-up" bad breath instead of prevent it? Learn more here.]

Everything You Need to Know About Cavities – Part II

Part I introduced you to the key players involved in tooth decay and touched on the importance of maintaining a neutral pH level inside the mouth. This next part will elaborate on pH balance, the different types of cavities and what you can do to prevent tooth decay.

You’d never have to worry about tooth decay if you didn’t eat. Of course, you wouldn’t have to worry about much because you would die. But eat we do, every day, and the foods we choose aren’t always the best.

When we eat carbohydrates, the body breaks them down into sugars including sucrose, fructose, maltose, dextrose and glucose. Fermentable carbohydrates actually begin breaking down in the mouth (as opposed to the digestive tract where other foods begin the process). If you eat cookies, cake, chips, crackers, candy, sugary drinks and cereal you are eating fermentable carbohydrates.

When the sugars in these foods interact with the

Homemade Remedy For Bad Breath

Today’s Quick Tip: Use Baking Soda

Baking soda’s not just for the refrigerator any more. It’s been used for brushing teeth for ages, and one of its biggest advantages is the effect it has on your breath. Baking soda absorbs odors, and that doesn’t change when you put it on your toothbrush. Use baking soda to brush, don’t forget the tongue, and you’ll notice a marked decrease in bad breath.

[Ed. Note: Did you know that most commercial oral care products "cover-up" bad breath instead of prevent it? Learn more here.]

Everything You Need to Know About Cavities – Part I

The pain definitely tells us when we have cavities, but few of us understand why we get them. You likely know that poor dental hygiene causes cavities, but do you understand why not brushing or flossing causes cavities?

In order to understand all that’s involved in the making of a cavity, you’ve got to first understand the key players. Those players include saliva, pellicle, plaque and calculus and each resides in the mouth.

Saliva is really important when it comes to protecting teeth and keeping our mouths healthy. Saliva keeps teeth, gums and other tissues inside the mouth lubricated and moist. Saliva helps break food down while eating, and afterwards it washes away some of the bits of food that get stuck on teeth.

Saliva also can neutralize acids which lowers the amount present in the mouth. Interestingly, it can even help protect us against certain viruses and bacteria.

If you’ve ever noticed a