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The Japanese are notorious for being quiet during their commute but even if they don't say anything I often get some nasty smelling breath here and there.

Also last week I went to meet a potential new sex friend in a restaurant and I could smell her filthy breath from the other side of the table. G cup but the smell was a total deal breaker.

Lots of coworkers also really stink from the mouth.

Personally I'me very self-conscious when it come to the smell of my breath and I always take some Frisk whenever I meet someone or sleep with them.

Anyway, why do they stink so much?
 
Now there is a girl with G cups in a Japanese dating forum starting a thread titled "I possibly met another psychotic man?".
 
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The answer could be pretty simple. Apparently most people aren't away of that smell themselves and Japanese in general totally like to not make you aware of it either.
Or maybe your nose is just overly sensitive. I'm not talking the same size of sample tests as others here, but I haven't noticed this being a problem more prevalent than in other countries.
 
RandomTokyoGuy said:
The answer could be pretty simple. Apparently most people aren't away of that smell themselves and Japanese in general totally like to not make you aware of it either.
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I have another explanation: most of Japanese have a unhealthy lifestyle in general.
Drinking/smoking/eating until very late and no proper sleep time.

RandomTokyoGuy said:
Or maybe your nose is just overly sensitive..
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Nope. I love the smell of shit but not when it comes from the mouth. :finger:
 
I think men (especially older men) tend to have worse breath than females, but I don't think this is exclusive to Japan. Rather, it's probably because in Japan you're more often confined to small spaces in close proximity to people. Rather than being packed like fucking sardines on a local JR line, my morning commute now involves me in my turbo-charged sports car tearing down the highway and screaming obscenities out the window at slow/old/female drivers, and then I sit in my office alone surfing Amazon, Pornhub or TAG until I get bored and go back to my condo for a nap. I don't have to smell anyone.

Now I, personally, am nearly OCD about bad smells and take near-neurotic measures to ensure I don't have bad breath. Even fifteen years ago when I was a poor eikaiwa slave, I always kept two pieces of Frisk in my inner lip during all of my classes, just to make sure I was golden. Fortunately for me, my Japanese other half is the same way. Two horny, racist binge drinkers with angel's breath...I guess fate brought us together.
 
Juliet said:
Dental health is just different in japan. Not so many people take it as seriously. Especially coming from America where everyone has white, straight teeth and takes dental hygiene very seriously.
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There’s also the fact that cosmetic dentistry is too expensive in Japan. Regular dentistry such as cleaning or basic fillings are covered by health insurance and can be done for affordable prices if you speak Japanese, but if you need cosmetic work such as veneers a single dental veneer costs about 150-200k. (If you are okay with your teeth looking like plastic brackets, cheaper options available of course...) When I was researching different clinics, I was surprised that they charged so much for a single tooth and I opted to go overseas for my treatment. Orthodontic treatments are also expensive and the old generation didn’t pay much attention to their teeth. However, I can see the young generation is a bit different.

Dental work was the first thing I’ve invested in once I had enough savings and I absolutely don’t regret it.. it’s such a good investment for a person’s general health and appearance.

I don’t mind if a person doesn’t have very straight teeth, or they naturally have a bit discoloration but some people don’t even seem to keep up with mechanical cleaning appointments. Or they have tons of disposable income, buy a room full of designer items but don’t mind exposing others to their bad breath in tiny office spaces.
 
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Look up tonsil stones or tonsilloliths.

Or, try googling for images.

If it's not tonsil stones, the same materials in the crevices of one's teeth and gums...

My theory is that grains of rice are the perfect size to get trapped in the crypts of ones tonsils and make the near perfect putrid starter...
 
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When I see how they (don't) wash their hands in the restroom, I can't imagine how they brush their teeth.
 
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Oh fucking get over it! Racists! Everyone but your race is smellier than you, is that it? News Flash: Japanese people are no smellier or dirtier or less hygenic in totality than anyone else! And all of you humans are disgusting! Dreadlocks are fucking disgusting! French and Italian armpits, disgusting! British teeth, disgusting! Fat Americans, Indians, Africans with their deep sweaty folds of fat, oh my god disgusting! Bean eating gas blasting Mexicans and other South of the Border farters, disgusting! Did you know that even today Bedouin tribeswomen of the Sahara wash their hair in Camel urine! I bet that smells great! Garlic eating cigarette smoking Asians, fucking gag me with a spoon.

Pigs are clean, especially when freshly showered and annointed with Old Spice. The ladies love it!
 
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NorthTriangle said:
Look up tonsil stones or tonsilloliths.

Or, try googling for images.

If it's not tonsil stones, the same materials in the crevices of one's teeth and gums...

My theory is that grains of rice are the perfect size to get trapped in the crypts of ones tonsils and make the near perfect putrid starter...
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dont google images, google the videos. its so fucking gross, yet kinda satisfying, like the pimple popping or ingrown hair videos.

I have tonsil stones sometimes, but don't have bad breath. I clean them out regularly and make sure I stay hydrated.
'real' bad breath isn't caused by stuff in the mouth, its from the stomach, and usually down to medical issues or an unhealthy lifestyle.
If you have serious bad breath, a mint or brushing your teeth won't help for more than 5 minutes, you'll need to cure the underlying issues.
If a mint or teeth brushing helps, you don't really have 'bad breath' you just ate something smelly, or had morning breath. happens to anyone.

also rice doesn't cause tonsil stones, and tonsil stones really aren't unique to rice-eating cultures.
 
I don’t know if there are more in Japan, but I have noticed my fair share. My wife is Japanese and she has commented too when we’re out shopping and the salesperson has bad breath.

There was one girl at my previous company that had really bad breath. She was actually well kept and took care of herself, but really had bad breath on most days. I brought it up once and at least the other foreigners agreed.
 
Juliet said:
Dental health is just different in japan. Not so many people take it as seriously. Especially coming from America where everyone has white, straight teeth and takes dental hygiene very seriously.
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That's true. US dental insurance plans are designed to support preventive care, routine check-ups and clean-ups. A typical dental insurance plan doesn't pay more than a set annual maximum, say $2000, per year - which is barely enough to cover a root canal. If you fail to keep your dental heath by yourself, you have to pay a penalty financially. No such financial incentive exists in Japan as NHI covers dental surgeries almost limitless.
 
Simonka said:
don’t mind exposing others to their bad breath in tiny office spaces.
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I personally find coffee-breath to be the most disgusting thing, like Im almost retching.
I find it so rude when people drink a coffee then lean over into your personal space and breathe.
My old boss used to do this all the time, he constantly had gross breath and generally bad hygiene, but had some decent clothes. I was young and on a low salary at the time and he'd always come out with nasty comments about my cheap suit etc and that I should dress a bit better, completely unaware that perhaps clients / colleagues would look at me and think 'he is a but junior and clearly not that succesful yet' based on my appearance, whereas with him, once he was within a couple of meters of them, he was physically repulsing them.

15 years later he has the same shitty job in a shitty office going to work in his stupid suits, still living with a roommate even though he is in his 50s now, I bet he still breathing on some poor fuckers that have to listen to his uninspiring and often incorrect advice. cunt.
 
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Juliet said:
Dental health is just different in japan. Not so many people take it as seriously. Especially coming from America where everyone has white, straight teeth and takes dental hygiene very seriously.
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Not sure if this is satire or not but I'd say maybe 10% of Americans have straight white teeth. Or rather, only people in the upper middle class can afford orthodontists as they're not covered by insurance. I will agree that in the states theres a much heavier cultural importance put on having a Hollywood smile
 
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C4ssandra said:
Not sure if this is satire or not but I'd say maybe 10% of Americans have straight white teeth. Or rather, only people in the upper middle class can afford orthodontists as they're not covered by insurance. I will agree that in the states there's a much heavier cultural importance put on having a Hollywood smile
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I wouldn't call it satire, by comparison, Americans in general have better dental health awareness compared to some generations of Japanese. The younger groups take it more seriously these days and more families opt to get advanced dental care compared to previous generations.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db336-h.pdf < overall dental coverage (2019)

I cannot find a reliable breakdown of speciality coverage such as orthodontics, but there are coverage options for both adults and children. In my immediate circle of family members, no one required more than regular dentist visits. And certainly, when I'm back home in the states, people are certainly much more obese but they have great teeth, usually... :LOL::LOL:
 
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So say for example you were out until 3AM drinking heavily. You drank huge amounts of wine, beer, whiskey and vodka and sake. You smoked a few cheap cigars. Then you went home and went to sleep for a few hours. When you woke up you almost puked. It would have been much better if you had puked. But you didn't. You got dressed and got on the Green Car to go into the office where you would pretend to work for a few hours and then go to the sauna to sweat and sleep off the poisons in your blood and stomach. My question is, given the very volitile situation in your stomach, and the fact that the slightlest wiff of something that is even just a little bit smelly could result in you vomiting all over the place, if you could control who sat next to you, and who also breathed on you on the Green Car, which from the following choices would you pick and which would you dread the most? Your choices are:

Japanese businessman
American white businessman
African American businessman
Indian businessman
Chinese businessman
Italian businessman
Greek businessman
French businessman
Arab businessman
Latin/Central American businessman
African businessman
Swedish businessman
German businessman
Eskimo
Masai Tribesman
Warubuta
 
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TAG Manager said:
I wouldn't call it satire, by comparison, Americans in general have better dental health awareness compared to some generations of Japanese. The younger groups take it more seriously these days and more families opt to get advanced dental care compared to previous generations.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db336-h.pdf < overall dental coverage (2019)

I cannot find a reliable breakdown of speciality coverage such as orthodontics, but there are coverage options for both adults and children. In my immediate circle of family members, no one required more than regular dentist visits. And certainly, when I'm back home in the states, people are certainly much more obese but they have great teeth, usually... :LOL::LOL:
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This is dental, not orthodontic, correct? The average cost of braces is between 3,000-10,000 USD. If you have more than one kid, that's the price of a car. I dont know any families that can drop that kind of cash without pulling in a salary of at least 6 figures.
 
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C4ssandra said:
This is dental, not orthodontic, correct? The average cost of braces is between 3,000-10,000 USD. If you have more than one kid, that's the price of a car. I dont know any families that can drop that kind of cash without pulling in a salary of at least 6 figures.
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I referred to orthodontics in the last passage. There are reasonable plans available but I cannot find a reliable breakdown to demonstrate usage. I didn’t have any friends that had braces, so no personal experience.
 
C4ssandra said:
This is dental, not orthodontic, correct? The average cost of braces is between 3,000-10,000 USD. If you have more than one kid, that's the price of a car. I dont know any families that can drop that kind of cash without pulling in a salary of at least 6 figures.
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The first President of the United States had wooden teeth (and probably very bad breath). Prior to 1970 or so, nobody in Amerca or anywhere else had braces. Not really necessary, but a nice thing to give your kid if you have the dough. IMO, dental care of any kind with the exception that requires anesthesia should be less regulated, not require a full blown medical degree, and should be much less expensive. Go to Bangkok or Manila and you will see that about every fourth bargirl has braces. Cost is a small fraction of what you pay in the US or Japan.
 
C4ssandra said:
This is dental, not orthodontic, correct? The average cost of braces is between 3,000-10,000 USD. If you have more than one kid, that's the price of a car. I dont know any families that can drop that kind of cash without pulling in a salary of at least 6 figures.
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My family is middle class/lower middle class and both me and my sibling had braces, as well as lots of dental work like regular check ups. It’s actually normal where I’m from, because there are lots of payment plans and insurance for it. I would say that most people have pretty nice teeth.
 
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Juliet said:
My family is middle class/lower middle class and both me and my sibling had braces, as well as lots of dental work like regular check ups. It’s actually normal where I’m from, because there are lots of payment plans and insurance for it. I would say that most people have pretty nice teeth.
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I've read someplace that brushing helps :p
 
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warubuta said:
IMO, dental care of any kind with the exception that requires anesthesia should be less regulated, not require a full blown medical degree, and should be much less expensive. Go to Bangkok or Manila and you will see that about every fourth bargirl has braces. Cost is a small fraction of what you pay in the US or Japan.
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I don't know if less regulation is a good idea when it comes to that...also opens the door for crooks to cause more damage than good to make a few bucks. It boils down to the medical system in my opinion. In Germany we have mandatory health insurance and braces are covered by it in your teen years. I think you have only a small percentage yourself and really everyone who has slightly crooked teeth gets it. That's also a way to solve this problem.

I personally don't mind crooked teeth. Sometimes gives character, often it just doesn't matter. It's just a cosmetic thing, what really matters is dental hygiene. I am also a bit under the impression that here in Japan you see more people with issues that originate there. You see so many people with multiple fillings or not well maintained teeth here. Because it's important to me, maybe I over-focus on this. What really stuck in my head were some statistics/graphs we discussed in Japaese class when I first came here. Think it was a grammar point about making another person do something, so we looked at graphs what Japanese parents command their kids to do every day.
Of course studying, cleaning, other activities had all high priorities.....making them brush their teeth was pretty low on the list. Really baffled me and kinda stuck in my head.
 
I've heard though multiple sources that Dentists and Vets are some of the biggest crooks in Japan.
 
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