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With the advancement of technology and the advent of the laser phenomenon, definitive treatment of bad breath can be easily done. Bad breath or halitosis is a problem that affects about 50% of adults in the country. The reason for this is turning to non-valid treatments or not paying attention to the main source of bad breath. Most reliable scientific sources have mentioned different causes and different percentages for bad breath, but they unanimously believe that more than 85% of cases are due to oral and dental problems and less than 15% of cases are due to other medical problems such as digestive problems. , chronic infections of the ear, throat, and nose, special drugs, and special diseases.
In the following, we will fully mention the reasons and how to treat permanent bad breath with a laser.
In the field of dentistry, the health of a person’s gums should be checked first. Usually when a person realizes a problem in his mouth and reaches a point where he feels the need for treatment. At first, he looks for temporary and ineffective treatments such as using mouthwashes, deodorants, pills, gums, and even antibiotics, and sometimes he takes help from traditional medicine. In cases where the problem is related to the mouth and teeth, bad breath can be treated using laser technology.
Traditional medicine can be effective in the prevention of disease in the field of dentistry, but it can never be definitive as a therapeutic agent. On the contrary, it causes the golden time of treatment to be lost.
The main symptom of bad breath is a bad smell coming out of your mouth. You don’t notice your bad breath because the smell reaches the cells in your nose that may be used to that smell. You only notice your bad breath when other people tell you about it. Unfortunately, many people refuse to do this because you may consider it rude.
Factors that cause bad breath include:
Teeth: The presence of decayed teeth, improper coating, and unfavorable filling of the restored tooth, due to the occurrence of food entrapment in the mentioned cases, the protective gum around the tooth is damaged and it can cause bad breath by itself.
Gums: with the characteristic symptoms of bleeding and redness of the gum tissue, which will also cause bad breath due to improper brushing and not removing food from the gums.
Tongue villi: In a small group of people, the length of the taste buds (tongue villi) at the end of the tongue can be a cause of bad breath, which usually disappears by brushing the tongue.
Dentures: Clean dentures well to remove plaque.
In addition to the mentioned items that cause bad breath. There are other factors such as (improper restorations, tooth decay, and cavities). There is another case called bacterial plaques, which starts with a soft and sticky yellow plaque, is formed after you brush your teeth for a while, and during A known process becomes a crime.
The primary goal of this treatment is to remove gum inflammation and correct the conditions that caused gum problems. Removing bad breath in this method can be done in 4 steps, and in the advanced stages of bad breath, surgical treatments are usually unavoidable.
The goal of gum surgery is to reach the depth of the lesions and remove the bacteria that have infiltrated the tooth root area and the supporting bone.
In common surgical treatments, by making an incision in the gum (flap), the gum tissue is separated from the bone surfaces and the formed mass, infected tissue, and inflammation are removed.
After washing the surgical area with antimicrobial substances, the gum tissue is returned to its original place and sutured. And after this surgery, pains in the stitched area and the use of antibiotics and painkillers are inevitable.
Since in the treatment of bad breath with laser, blood vessels are closed and there is no bleeding during surgery and swelling of gums after laser surgery, the laser method has been accepted and satisfied by many people suffering from bad breath.
In the treatment of bad breath with laser, blocking the nerve fibers of the gums reduces pain in 90 percent of people.
In the method of treating bad breath with laser, the special care after surgery is also removed, so that after the treatment session is over, the patient can eat food easily, unlike the common surgical method.
And finally, the method of treating bad breath with laser, due to the property of welding the gum tissue by laser radiation, eliminates the need for stitches and the possibility of forming extra tissue in the gum (scar) is minimized.