A study on the proposal of diagnostic tests and personalized counseling procedure that can be used for patients with physiological halitosis

Objectives: The authors enlightened the physiological halitosis patients to prevent the occurrence of oral malodor by eliminating the physical causes that contribute to causing oral malodor on their own. We would like to propose a personalized counseling procedure that can help the physiological halitosis patients escape from their oral malodor.Materials and Methods: We retrospectively examined the medical records of 148 adult men and women aged 19 or older who visited the KUMC Oral Malodor Clinic from 2017 to 2023, diagnosed with physiological halitosis, and instructed on oral malodor prevention methods through a personalized counseling program designed by the authors. We investigated and recorded 15 variables excluding the patient's personal information, analyzed them statistically, classified statistically significant variables that could contribute to the occurrence of oral malodor, and analyzed the correlation between these variables to identify statistically significant variables.Results: In order to secure data for individual counseling instruction, the results of a saliva test, the photographs of the tongue condition taken and read, and recording of imaging of the throat using an intraoral camera and reading were required.Conclusions: After comprehensively analyzing all information obtained from patients with physiological halitosis and inferring correlations, personalized counseling contents were organized into visual materials to provide personalized counseling for the prevention of physiological halitosis, and a personalized counseling by these materials could be suggested as one of the physiological halitosis prevention methods.