Are you suffering from bad breath? Have you tried everything—mouthwash, gum, mints, tongue scrapers—but to no avail? The culprit may actually be hiding in the back of your throat, in the form of a tonsil stone (tonsillolith).
I often get asked about these. It is easy for the patient to mistake them for “spots” on the tonsils due to strep throat. However, they are not always visible.
Not as detrimental to your health as, say, a kidney stone, a tonsil stone is a small, painless mass of calcium build up that sits in the crevices of your tonsils. Tonsil stones
usually contain bacteria, food particles, and other debris that accumulates into a hard mass. Post-nasal drip from allergies seems to “set the stage” for getting tonsil stones. If you’ve tried everything possible to manage bad breath without results, it may be caused by one or several tonsil stones.
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