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What to do about halitosis

Halitosis generally has as its basis bacterial putrefaction of food debris, cells, saliva, and blood.² In particular, proteolysis of proteins to peptides, amino acids, and thence substrates with free thiol groups, such as cysteine and reduced glutathione, gives rise to volatile fluids and sulphides.³ Acetone, acetaldehyde, ethanol, propanol, and diacyl are also important causes of halitosis but, perhaps surprisingly, amines, indole, and skatole do not seem . . . [Full text of this article]

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