What Causes Bad Morning Breath and How to Stop It!

Morning breath can be unpleasant and embarrassing, but what causes it to be so smelly, and what can you do about it?

Everyone suffers from morning breath to a degree, but how bad this is depends on your diet, lifestyle and the care you take over cleaning your teeth.

You know you have bad morning breath when you wake up because your mouth is dry and you have nasty taste in it. But it’s worse for the person you wake up with because they experience the bad smell of your breath more than you. That can be pretty embarrassing!

What causes bad morning breath?

One of the most obvious and major causes of morning breath is not cleaning your teeth and tongue well enough (or at all!) before you go to bed. We’ve all had late nights where we’re too tired to care about cleaning our teeth, normally after a few glasses of wine!

Other factors that contribute to this overly stinky morning breath are an unhealthy diet full of meat and sugar, and alcohol consumption. If particles of food remain overnight because you haven’t cleaned them off or removed them from in-between your teeth, they will turn into plaque and possibly tartar, both of which are major causes of bad breath.

Alcohol is also a diuretic, which contributes to the dry mouth you experience and also leads to bad breath (halitosis).

How can you stop bad morning breath?

The best way to avoid inflicting your bed partner with stinky morning breath is to have a good daily routine to clean your teeth, and to make sure you always do it before you go to bed.

The two biggest tips I give to my patients are to clean the bacteria off the tongue with a tongue scraper, and to use interdental brushes instead of floss. This is because interdental brushes are now known to be far more effective at removing the plaque buildup between the teeth.

Building these two oral care hacks into your daily dental routine will also help to prevent more serious conditions from developing, including: white tongue, gum disease (gingivitis), periodontitis, cavities and tooth decay.

At Biteaway, we advocate the following daily teeth-cleaning routine. This will keep your mouth and teeth healthy and reduce the severity of that morning breath.

Biteaway Bad Breath-Busting Routine

1. Use interdental brushes once a day in the evening instead of floss to clean between your teeth
2. Clean the bacteria off your tongue with a tongue scraper twice a day
3. Brush your teeth for 2 minutes, once in the morning and once at night
4. To complete your routine, use mouthwash once a day in the evening for 60 seconds

You can also keep your teeth healthy and your breath fresh by reducing the amount of sugar, meat and alcohol in your diet.

Morning breath is a fact of life, but you can stop it getting really bad simply by taking a bit more care over your daily teeth-cleaning routine. So resolve to spend a little bit more time cleaning your teeth every day and you’ll avoid inflicting your bed partner with morning breath that smells like bad drains in the summer!

Give them a fresh-breathed, confident kiss instead!

XOXO Nora

Merken

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