How to Cure Bad Breath

Are you plagued by bad breath? Do you find yourself always reaching for another piece of gum or your breath spray or even a mint, only to find that sour breath manages to break through and leave you back at square one? Typical mints and gums can smell nice for a while, but they can't cure bad breath because they don't address the underlying problems associated with bad breath. Instead, they are loaded with sugar or artificial sweeteners that only mask bad breath.

Many people assume bad breath is just a matter of eating the wrong foods or poor oral hygiene, but this is rarely the case. Those who suffer from chronic halitosis often work very hard to try and stay one step ahead of their bad breath, brushing with regular toothpaste, carrying gums and mints everywhere and scraping their tongue trying to get the better of bad odors and bacteria.

But what can you do when you have bad breath? It can make you feel self-conscious, turn people away and sometimes leave the impression that you aren't taking proper care of yourself. Even when none of these things are true, it doesn't make you feel any better. Suggested methods, such as scraping the tongue have been recommended, but these also do not bring the lasting results needed to truly cure bad breath.

When it comes down to it, the true culprit is sulfur. Sulfur is famous for its foul smell, so it's no wonder that its presence in your mouth is distasteful. This sulfur is present because of two amino acids that have high levels of sulfur: cysteine and methionine. These are known as volatile sulfur compounds (VSC) and they are produced by bacterial waste that is the result of their consumption of proteins on the tongue and the back of the throat. Although some these bacteria do live on the surface of the tongue, simply trying to keep up is a losing battle because it's all part of our natural oral process. When you don't get to the root of the problem, they just keep coming back. In fact, when the root causes are just masked and ignored, it just makes things worse.

When those amino acids can work, they digest proteins more quickly. There is less excess sulfur produced and, finally, a real chance at achieving a cure for bad breath.

Therabreath addresses these issues head on through an oxygenating process that speeds protein digestion and leaves less bacteria waste, excess sulfur and other foul-smelling, derivative chemical compounds behind. Therabreath's various products, including toothpaste, breath mints and sprays, don't just mask the problem with mint and sugar; they have active ingredients that oxidize when in your mouth.

You don't have to keep suffering and feeling bad about yourself for no good reason. Take control of the root causes of your halitosis and cure bad breath once and for all. You deserve it.