While there are many causes for white tongue, most causes for it are due to lack of proper oral hygiene and can be easily corrected. White tongue can also manifest itself as white spots on the tongue, a hairy white tongue, or a hairy white coating on your tongue.
Instructions
1. Determine if your type of white tongue is due from poor hygiene or something more serious like oral thrush or tongue cancer. While poor hygiene or oral thrush can be corrected, tongue cancer must be consulted through an oncologist.
2. Use your tongue scraper twice a day before brushing your teeth. Start in the back or base of your tongue and move forward. Repeat this process up to 4 times to release as much debris as possible from the folds of your tongue.
3. Brush your teeth as you regularly would. After brushing your teeth try and brush your tongue as well. Do not apply excessive pressure as this is unnecessary. Brush as long as you can without pushing your gag reflex too far.
4. Rinse out your mouth with an alcohol based mouth wash. The alcohol will help kill the bacteria building up in the folds of the tongue. This build up of bacteria is the usual cause for white tongue.
5. Quit smoking. Smoking leads to taste bud inflammation and also causes dehydration in the mouth. That combination allows for the proliferation of bacteria that would otherwise not be given a chance to grow in a non-smoker.
6. Eat healthy foods like non-sugar yogurt and vegetables at least once a day. The yogurt (preferably unsweetened) will help restore the balance of bacteria and fungus in your mouth which will reduce the amount of white tongue present. Eating raw vegetables scrubs off food accumulation, bacteria, and debris on your tongue.
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