Abstract
Oral malodor significantly affects our daily social life. It affects a large population and is a psychological setback to those suffering from it. This common disease has been really ignored for too long by periodontists, even though the most common cause is related to subgingival microbiota and coating of the tongue. It has been proved that a link exists between oral malodor and periodontal disease. Similar processes exist for the development of oral malodor and the progression of periodontitis. Compounds associated with oral malodor like volatile sulfur compounds (VSCs) are mainly produced by the gram negative, anaerobic bacteria associated with periodontitis. These VSC may further contribute to the etiology and pathogenesis of periodontal disease, so the purpose of this review article was to correlate the relationship between oral malodor and adult periodontitis. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjms.v11i2.9355 Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science Vol. 11 No. 02 April 2012: 74-79
Highlights
Halitosis is a general term which is used to describe the unpleasant breath
When the porcine epithelial tissues were treated with methyl mercaptan, the tissues demonstrated extensive impaired and dead cells. These findings suggest that volatile sulfur compounds (VSC) are directly toxic to epithelial cells and can facilitate the bacterial invasion into underlying connective tissue
Part may be the result of few investigators recognizing that oral malodor manifestation reflects basically the same processes in the development of gingivitis/periodontitis
Summary
Halitosis is a general term which is used to describe the unpleasant breath. It can have an oral or a non oral cause. Oral production of malodorous substances is mostly associated with the degradation of protein by the bacteria present in the oral cavity especially the tongue. Putrefaction is the term which is used to describe the process of protein hydrolysis and the catabolism of resulting amino acids which produces the unpleasant smelling volatiles.
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