ORAL MALODOUR

Question 1

LIVER INSUFFICIENCY smells like?

Answer 1

Sweet odour of dead mice

** In DAMS mice ATE all my food, at least I thought so…!! EATING associated with LIVER!

Question 2

Arsenic smells like?

Answer 2

Rotten onion

Question 3

Tri methyl amine smells like?

Answer 3

FISHY

Question 4

Drugs that has a smell?

Answer 4

METRONIDAZOLE

Question 5

Eucalyptus containing drug smells like?

Answer 5

MELON

Question 6

Gold std for measuring malodour?

Answer 6

ORGANOLEPTIC RATING..

Question 7

ORGANOLEPTIC RATING –

Answer 7

O. Not present

1. BARELY noticeable
2. SLIGHTLY BUT SURELY noticeable
3. Moderate
4. STRONG n OFFENSIVE
5. EXTREMELY FOUL

Question 8

PORTABLE VOLATILE SULPHIDE MONITOR??

Answer 8

** Pn —
COLLEUGUES. CHATTING. AMONG. themselves!!
1. COLLEUGUES — Calif

2. CHATTING — Chatsworth
3. AMONG — Interscan
4. HALIMETER… which is obvious as it has HALI in its name itself…

Less than 100 ppb — N
300 - 400 — increased volatile SULPHUR compound…

Question 9

Rx of oral malodour —

Answer 9

— CHX

— HALITA —

    CHX --- 0.05 %
    Cetyl pyridium chloride --- 0.05 %
    Zinc chloride or lactate (CHECK...!!) ---                0.14 %

VSC inhibitory effect—-

Clinically, CuCl2 ] SnF2 ] ZnCl2, still ZnCl2 considered to be the best!! Because - non cumulative n non toxic…

— TOOTHPASTE also decreases oral malodour…. (44% better than CHX - 43%)

CHEWING GUMS — TEA extracts like, EPIGALOCATCHIN (Pn – We insert chewing gum into our BUCCAL VESTIBULE (means GAL (Cheek) + the chewing gum CATCHES the cheek… Therefore CATCH

So finally it becomes
Epi - GALO - CATCHIN