Most people believe that poor oral hygiene is the main contributor to bad breath causes. However, trying to find a cure for halitosis by over-swilling with alcohol-based mouthwashes proves only to make the problem worse.
Once you have been to the dentist and ensured that a bad filling or mouth infection are not the cause, any sufferer needs to address other lifestyle issues, such as oral piercings or smoking. If neither of these is relevant, then diet is the next candidate for blame.
Contrary to common perception, our digestive system is very rarely one of the causes of smelly breath, it is far more likely to be the reaction of the microbes and organisms in our mouth to specific foodstuffs.
Snuffling and snoring is often also a problem with those who are trying to identify the causes for bad breath and the problem has also been linked to post-nasal drip and the activity of Candida organisms in the oral cavity digesting that matter as it accumulates on the tongue.
