Why Do You Need A Tongue Scraper?
If you’ve visited the oral care section of the drug store or browsed online, you may have noticed a tool called a tongue scraper or tongue cleaner. They come in various shapes and sizes, but one thing is certain, they are an essential part of a proper oral care routine. Tongue scrapers help to clean your tongue by loosening the layer of biofilm, the yellowish-white coating on the tongue. Biofilm is home to billions of disease and odor-causing bacteria.
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How To Prevent Morning Breath
Morning breath, the dreaded odor that greets others as you greet the day. The embarrassing oral odor is caused by a buildup of bacteria in the mouth. Those bacteria produce Volatile Sulfur Compounds (VSCs) when they feed on the food remnants left in the mouth after eating. When you sleep less saliva is generated, so there is less saliva to flush away the bacteria. This allows an overgrowth of aerobic bacteria (which require oxygen for growth), exposing the anaerobic bacteria (which do not require oxygen for growth) that produce bad breath.
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Proper Tongue Cleaning Might Save Your Life
Have you ever looked at your tongue and noticed a white or yellow coating on your tongue’s surface? That’s Biofilm, and it’s home to billions of disease-causing bacteria. This mucus-coating is a combination of food debris, dead skin cells, and free-floating plaque. You’ll notice that it’s thickest on the back of the tongue where small bumps, called papillae, easily trap the stray debris.
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