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How to use tongue scraper is in fact very simple.

Many people do it exactly wrong.

You need to be gentle and get as far back in your throat as your gag reflex allows you. It gets easier the more you do it and you should do it every day if you suffer from a build up of muck on your tongue.

After you scrape (or gently brush) your tongue, you then apply a dot of non foaming toothpaste onto your brush and coat your tongue, letting it sit for a little while to soak in before rinsing.

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Tongue scraping is a worthwhile part of your oral hygiene routine.

You need to go about it the right way, though.

You don’t need an expensive or even any, tongue scraper. Though you might prefer to have one rather than to use your toothbrush for this – it’s up to you.

Whatever you use, be gentle and get as far back as you can without gagging.

Then put a thin coating of good quality (non foaming) toothpaste over your tongue and let it sit there for up to a minute before rinsing.

This will help eliminate bad breath and the build up of sulpher causing gunk on your tongue.

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How to get rid of bad breath for good depends a bit on why you have bad breath in the first place.

If you tend to eat a lot of food that has a stinky aftertaste, you need to change your eating habits or neutralise the aftertaste with other foods, like parsley.

If you have poor oral hygiene habits, then you need to lift your teeth cleaning and mouthwashing game on a permanent basis.

If you just don’t know what’s going on, you may have to look at the products you are using and change them.  Not everyone can take the highly soapy toothpastes and highly alcohol based mouthwashes that are commercially available.

The drying action of both of these products leave a lot of people open to the sulfer fumes that are a hallmark of chronic bad breath.

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A gentle tongue scraper has much less to do with the item you buy and heaps to do with how you intend to use it.

If you are determined to scrape all the muck off your tongue in a desperate effort to get rid of the build up and the bad breath that goes with it, then good luck to you, but you are going about it the wrong way.

You need to be gentle with your choice of tongue scraper.

You also need to coat your tongue with a light covering of toothpaste post tongue scraping so the tongue absorbs the paste before you wash it off.

Less force and bluster, more gentle application, will get the results you need.

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Yes, buy a tongue scraper if you get a build up of matter on you tongue on a regular basis.

Then use the thing, every day, twice a day.

And use it properly.

Do not rub the daylights out of your tongue. Just gently scrape the build up off and then cover your tongue very lightly with a little good quality toothpaste for a minute or so.

The toothpaste should not be a highly foaming, soap filled popular brand. It should be a toothpaste that does not dry out your mouth.

Rinse off and use a good quality mouthwash to complete the process. Again not a drying mouthwash – beware of the alcohol content of popular brands.

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Here’s some ideas about natural remedies for bad breath

First, think about the toothpaste you’re currently using. If this is a popular brand and it foams up really nicely in your mouth and makes you feel like you are really cleaning your teeth well, think again.

Lots of popular commercial brands of toothpaste foam up and dry out your mouth and this dryness helps to cause chronic bad breath.

So the more you brush, the worst it gets.

It’s the same with mouthwash. Many popular brands are full of alcohol and will dry out your mouth causing conditions for really stinky breath.

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The best tongue scraper doesn’t have to be electric or expensive or have a great logo on it.

The best tongue scraper does not depend on its own properties, but in your ability to remember to use it properly every day.

A simple plastic tongue scraper that is oh so cheap is all you need to take the build up off your tongue before painting on a really thin layer of good quality toothpaste and letting it soak in for about a minute.

After that time, just rinse your mouth and put your tongue scraper where you’ll remember to use it again in 12 hours time.

That’s the best tongue scraper.
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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 and gently scrape the build up off your tongue before you brush your tongue for maximum cleaning and anti bacteria effect.

Don’t be too rough or hasty with the tongue scraper; the idea is the brush the detritus off the tongue, not take the top layer of skin off it!

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It is important if you are going to or have already taken the step to buy a tongue scraper that you learn to use it properly.

How to use a tongue scraper

It is such a pity about the name, because you really don’t want to scrape your tongue till it’s rough and sore and raw.

Some people have even made their tongue bleed in over enthusiastic use of a tongue scraper, and that is not good for you in the short or long term.

Just gently move the scraper over the surface of your tongue as far back as you are able to get the build up off your tongue, then apply a small dot of non-soap based toothpaste on the scraper, gently rub that over your tongue and leave it to “soak in” for a couple of minutes before rinsing your mouth.
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In answer to the question – Do tongue scrapers work?  – yes they do.

Tongue scrapers used regularly and for the right purpose do work as part of a bad breath cure.

The mistake too many people make when scraping their tongues is to use the devise as a physical cure, some scraping so often and so hard that they cause their tongues to bleed!

Think of a tongue scraper as a gentle cleaner and application device.

After you gently scrape the build up off your tongue, you apply a small dot of a non soap based toothpaste on your tongue scraper and apply the paste all over the tongue as far back as you can to attack the stinky bacteria where it lives.

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