Sounds really bad, doesn’t it – throat stones.
Those aren’t really little stones in your throat, they are a bit soft and pliable, but tonsil stones or tonsiliths or tonsilloliths or throat stones do resemble tiny white pebbles.
They are smelly and they are awkward, lodged in the back of your throat and they are quite scary [...]
Don’t you just hate it when you’ve had a meal and you get a piece of food jammed between your teeth and for some reason, you can’t get to it with a toothpick or piece of floss at the time and you end up with a gum infection swelling at the base of your tooth.
Then [...]
Tonsil pockets are a perfectly natural part of your anatomy. You’ll find them way at the back of your throat.
Unfortunately for many people, these tonsil crypts are great repositories for tonsil stones.
What are tonsil stones?
Also known as tonsilloliths (or tonsiliths), tonsilstones are small hard lumps of whitish material that are made up partly of food, [...]
Preventing bad breath is a problem that faces all of us; more often than you’d think. While over half the population get bad breath occasionally, around a third have chronic stinky breath that they despair of fixing.
You can’t prevent bad breath by covering it up, but some forms of chewy mints do help a bit.
You [...]
Any gum infection remedy is not going to work immediately.
And once you’ve addressed the problem, you need to be vigilant with your oral hygiene so the problem doesn’t return. You don’t want to be losing teeth over a gum infection!
Conditions such as gingivitis are relatively easy to treat in the early stages, but you really [...]
Yes, you really do need to brush your tongue as well as your teeth.
You can get a nasty, smelly build up on your tongue that not only looks bad, it can smell like the bottom of a birdcage.
If you suffer from tonsil stones or post nasal drip, you may want to buy a tongue scraper [...]
What’s a good remedy for sore throat?
If you’ve had a sore throat for a couple of hours or up to a day, you could gain success in
gargling with slightly salted water
sucking on a medicated throat lolly or some honey with a little crushed up asprin in it
doing Yoga moves for a sore throat (stretching the [...]
There is a danger in finding an effective post nasal drip cure because when working on drying up the drip, you may also be drying up the throat and therefore creating an environment for bacteria in the mouth to pump out sulfur componds and making your breath stink.
Most antihistamines will do that to you, [...]
Are you thinking about getting your tonsils removed?
As an adult you should maybe think again.
Tonsil removing is major and invasive and quite risky surgery for an adult.
There is routinely a lot of blood loss and associated risk.
If you are considering this type of throat surgery because of soreness or pain or even odor problems. get [...]
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Fixing bad breath may well take you awhile, but it is quite common to have and simple to fix if you remain on task with treating it.
If you (and those around you) suffer from your bad breath, you are going to have to look at your diet and your oral hygiene [...]
