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Article: SAY, `AHHHHHHHH' BAD BREATH AFFLICTS EVERYONE, BUT MOST CAN TURN FOUL AIR PLEASANT, EXPERTS SAY.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- August 25, 1998
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Byline: BARBARA ISAACS Knight Ridder
Quickly now, while no one's looking. Lick your wrist.
Now take a whiff.
That's a sure-fire way to tell whether you have bad breath, and chances are, yours isn't minty fresh.
You might not realize it, but there are hundreds of thousands of living organisms in your mouth, some of them manufacturing unpleasant odors.
And you might not be fighting them off as well as you think.
``Over a 24-hour period, everyone has bouts of bad breath,'' or halitosis, said Carol Meyer, a dental hygienist and president of Personal Breath Consultants Inc., based in Long Island.