Nollywood actress and entrepreneur Angela Eguavoen is encouraging people to pay closer attention to their oral hygiene, saying fresh breath is just as important as looking good.
Sharing the message on her page, she pointed out that many adults brush their teeth every day but leave out one important step cleaning their tongue.
According to her, that simple habit could make a big difference in preventing bad breath.
She said:
“Your mouth is smelling. Yes you heard me right. If you brush your teeth without using a tongue scraper, as an adult..why will you brush without using a tongue scraper?
“Having fresh breath is as important as having white teeth. You see your tongue, I think that is one of the most important places because that is even where the bacterias in your mouth store. Just scrape your tongue. A lot of you are walking about restricting people’s airflow.
“What will it profit you if you do makeup of 150,000 naira, you wear hair of 1.5 million, 3 million and you open your mouth, your mouth dey smell.
“And they will not be able to tell you because you are a pretty girl and probably you are a celebrity.
“It is always very difficult to tell someone that your breath stinks. It’s very difficult. Unless it’s a close friend. And e go even get where the close friend go do and reach self, they will stop saying it.
“It’s left to you, be disgracing yourself.
So do your own part by using tongue scraper. This thing is very very cheap.”
Angela also stressed that brushing alone is not enough. She advised people to make flossing part of their daily routine and said using a water flosser can help remove tiny food particles that regular floss may miss.
Continuing, she said:
“Being good looking goes beyond just your appearance. What about your mouth? How is your oral hygiene like?
“One of my friends saw my oral hygiene and she was like ‘Angela did you fix veneers?’ I said no, I did not. Because I really think it’s a normal thing.
“Some of you just feel that once you just do veneers e don finish, your teeth go dey white. What if when you open the mouth everywhere dey bath, everywhere dey smell?
“How are they going to tell this fine boy, this pretty girl with nice makeup, sleek body that your mouth dey smell?
“Flossing is also very important. A lot of you, you will eat and you will not floss. Either you use this or you use that rope floss and floss your teeth.
“And if you want to take it a much further, in fact this one is also very important water floss. You know those small particles in your mouth that you will not be able to take off with that regular floss? Water floss will do it for you.
“Because often times after I use the regular and I use water floss, I still see little particles coming out from my mouth.
“A lot of you, food particles of 10 years ago are still in your mouth. Why your mouth no dey smell?”
She also advised people to brush again before heading out in the evening if they had only brushed in the morning, especially if they would be interacting with others.
She added:
“And also if you brush in the morning and you want to go out at night, please brush again. Clean your teeth again. Because you are going to be talking to people.
“A lot of people, na their breath no good. Na them go dey carry mouth dey so person, na them go use mouth dey near people pass.
“Your breath dey smell. E dey smell.
Help yourself and help people’s children’s air.
“Please, I think every adult should just assume that they have bad breath so that you would always be cautious with the way you take care of your breath.”
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