ORAL MALODOUR Flashcards

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LIVER INSUFFICIENCY smells like?

A

Sweet odour of dead mice

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

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2
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Arsenic smells like?

A

Rotten onion

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3
Q

Tri methyl amine smells like?

A

FISHY

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4
Q

Drugs that has a smell?

A

METRONIDAZOLE

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5
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Eucalyptus containing drug smells like?

A

MELON

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6
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Gold std for measuring malodour?

A

ORGANOLEPTIC RATING..

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ORGANOLEPTIC RATING –

A

O. Not present

  1. BARELY noticeable
  2. SLIGHTLY BUT SURELY noticeable
  3. Moderate
  4. STRONG n OFFENSIVE
  5. EXTREMELY FOUL
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8
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PORTABLE VOLATILE SULPHIDE MONITOR??

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

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

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

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Rx of oral malodour —

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— 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

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