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Ok, I want to be close to my friends but I am afraid that my breath is offen­sive. Peo­ple some­times turn their heads away when I get too close. No one wants to tell me or upset me but I know they are dis­gusted with my bad breath. Well, I have seen my den­tist, he says I need to have some cav­i­ties filled and that my gums are a mess. So yes I made sev­eral appoint­ments to get things done with him and now my breath has improved. His advice was to reg­u­larly brush, floss and scrape my tongue clean. Please don’t let me gross you out, but clean­ing my tongue, a very pri­vate mat­ter, is truly one of the most impor­tant hygiene things I do to keep my breath neu­tral and fresh.

In the past I would try breath mints and alco­hol based mouth rinses that did no more than add a minty smell to my dis­gust­ing bad breath stench. The read­ily avail­able alco­hol based rinses only dried out my mouth and let the odor pro­duc­ing bac­te­ria grow wild in my mouth. My den­tist told me that the very back of my tongue, the hard­est area for me to clean is where most of the foulest odor pro­duc­ing bac­te­ria thrive. It makes me gag a bit but I now make extra effort to clean those hard to reach areas on the back of my tongue. The result is very notice­able accord­ing to friends and family.

So I was improv­ing my health and my breath. Then my den­tist told me about alco­hol free mouth rinses with chlo­rine diox­ide. His favorite was Closys. These rinses help to neu­tral­ize the odor caus­ing bac­te­ria and oh man, they really work great!

My fam­ily is so happy. They don’t turn their heads when I lean in to be close, this makes me very happy. With some effort, I can enjoy the secret ben­e­fits of fresh breath success.