Re: Mpdela..starting tmau treatment...

Also, regarding the bad breath, I highly recommend a tongue scraper that you can get at any drug store in the section where they sell oral hygene stuff like dental floss, etc.  Then, after scraping your tongue, you can brush your tongue after brushing your teeth with the same toothpaste.  Then use Orajel antibacterial mouthwash for bleeding gums.  Do this tongue scraping twice a day indefinitely, and yoI've see a marked improvement. 

Here's some info on a very good online article from the Journal of Cntemporary Dental Practice.  It presents presents three studies carried out from 1992 through 1997 on the source of volatile sulphur compound (VSC) production and tongue coating. It highly supports the practice of tongue scraping for the longer lasting reductions in VSC levels. It identified several malodourous bacteria, such as Bacteroides, Fusobacteria spp., Peptococcus., and Peptostreptococcus, amongst the prominent cultivable microbiata.

Recent studies implicate the dorsum of the tongue as the primary source of VSC production both in periodontally healthy and diseased populations. These studies demonstrate (1) that removal of the tongue coating reduces VSC production and (2) when comparisons are performed in samples of mouth air following tongue scraping, tooth brushing, and rinsing with water in subjects with malodour, the longer lasting reductions in VSC levels are followed after tongue scraping.(1)