Researchers at State University of New York at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine have identified a tongue bacteria, Solobacterium moorei, that they say is associated with severe halitosis. Participants in the study had chronic bad breath and researchers collected sample by scraping the tongue’s surface. The tongues of every participant who had halitosis had the bacterium. The research also found that men were more likely to have the bacteria than women.

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Researchers at the University of Buffalo School of Dental Medicine and Roswell Park Cancer Institute released the results of their study at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Dental Research, indicating that those who are infected with both periodontitis and human papillomavirus (HPV) have a higher risk of developing tongue cancer. The study involved 30 patients who were diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma on the base of the tongue from 1999 to 2005. 90% of subjects with HPV-positive tumors also had periodontitis and 79% of subjects with non-HPV tumors did not have periodontitis.

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