Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of chewing of gum, an extremely common habit, on bad breath. In this study, to estimate the effect of chewing of gum on bad breath gas chromatograph equipped with flame photometric detector and organoleptic perception technique were applied.The results were as follows1. Using gas chromatograph equipped with volatile sulfur compounds were detected from the subjects with bad breath2. By chewing of gum volatile sulfur compounds were reduced significantly for 1 hour at least, and by organoleptic perception technique bad breath was not perceived for 1 hour3. The effect of chewing of gum base on bad breath last about 20min. after that the concentrations of volatile sulfur compounds rapidly returned to the pre-chewing conditions4. From this study significant effect on bad breath was observed by chewing of gum
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