Do underlying medical problems cause bad breath?
“I said 90 percent of the problems occur in the mouth, which leaves 10 percent for somewhere else,” says Price. There could be infected sinuses, diabetes due to the production of ketones, gastrointestinal conditions such as bowel obstruction and certain lung conditions. “My job, as a dentist, is to figure out if the problem is coming from the mouth and treat it,” says Price. “If it’s not coming from the mouth, then I refer somebody to a medical doctor.” How do you treat bad breath? There’s ways of treating it and keeping these bacterial populations under control. If you want to cure under-arm odor or foot odor, what do you do? You take a shower, which reduces the bacterial population. So for bad breath, you brush, floss and keep your mouth as clean as possible. But even the healthiest mouth can have the bad breath problem because the bacteria tend to accumulate in the back part of the tongue. If you scrape your tongue once in the morning and once at night, most often it will do the tri
