For subscribers
The Bottom Line: Does tongue scraping improve oral hygiene?
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox
Use purpose-built tools and not household items to clean your tongue, say dentists.
ST PHOTO: GIN TAY
Follow topic:
SINGAPORE – Worried about bad breath during the festive feasting and visiting period? Dentists say that the practice of tongue scraping might help.
Dr Koh Chu Guan, senior consultant at the National Dental Centre Singapore’s Periodontics Unit, Department of Restorative Dentistry, says: “The tongue is often the biggest source of halitosis-causing bacteria.”
