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Published on: July 6, 2015
Clinical application of a questionnaire for diagnosis and treatment of halitosis
1Department of Oral Biological and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. yaegaki@direct.ca
Abstract:
To treat halitosis, clinicians must examine the psychologic condition of a patient as well as the disease history and plausible causes of oral malodor, such as periodontal disease. However, it is not easy for a practitioner to carry out a psychologic examination other than the normal inquiry concerning oral malodor itself. Hence, a questionnaire that appears to be a normal inquiry, rather than one containing psychologic questions, was composed to survey the causes of halitosis and psychosomatic tendencies.
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