Research Journal of Pharmacy and Technology
SCOPUS
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 8

Efficacy of Different Substances in the Control of Halitosis

1BDS 1st Year, Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals, Chennai

2Professor, Department of Oral Pathology, Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals, Chennai

*Corresponding Author E-mail: samrithiyuvaraj@hotmail.com

Online published on 28 October, 2015.

Abstract

To study the effect of different substances on halitosis

Halitosis is very common in the general population and more than half of the world's population suffers from this problem. Halitosis affects a person's daily life negatively.

Halitosis has multifactorial origins but in most cases it originates from plaque, calculus and other adherent biofilm.

The main aim of this study is to assess the effect different substances have in controlling halitosis.

Mouthwash has always been considered as the gold standard to help control halitosis. But there are a number of other substances that also control it. So this study aims at seeing which of these substances has the most efficacy in controlling halitosis.

Keywords

Halitosis, Bad Breath, Mouth Wash, Polo, Orbit