Breath Odors

This comprehensive, evidence-based textbook presents the latest knowledge on bad breath, describing insights from basic research and offering expert guidance on current approaches to diagnosis and treatment. The new edition has been thoroughly updated to take account of recent advances in understanding. The opening chapters examine in detail the origins of bad breath, including from the nose and pharynx. Microbial and biochemical aspects are fully explained, and information is also provided on odor perception. The clinically focused chapters cover all forms of laboratory measurement of breath odors, chairside diagnostic techniques, and the full range of available treatment options. The value of self-administered questionnaires in assessing bad breath is discussed, and attention is paid to the problem in specific population groups and to psychological aspects. Finally, future prospects are reviewed. The authors draw on more than forty years of combined experience in the field, both in the laboratory and as consultants to thousands of patients. The book will be of interest to all dentists as well as ENT specialists and family physicians.

Nir Sterer gained his DMD from Tel Aviv University in 1997 and, after working as a teaching assistant in the Department of Microbiology at the university, went on to obtain his PhD in 2002. In the same year he was appointed as a researcher and clinical instructor in the Department of Prosthodontics at Hadassah School of Dental Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and he later became a researcher in the Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology in the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. Since 2012 he has been a senior lecturer in the Department of Prosthodontics, Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine, Tel Aviv University. Dr. Sterer has also worked in private practice since 1998. He is the author of many peer-reviewed journal articles on the subject of halitosis.

Mel (Melvyn) Rosenberg, BSc, MSc, PhD, is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Human Microbiology, Sackler School of Medicine and Maurice and Gabriela Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine, Tel Aviv University. He was a professor at the university from 1997 to 2009 and also at Holon Institute of Technology from 2011 to 2014. Currently he is an advisor to the President and Head of Keter Innovation Center, Shenkar College. Dr. Rosenberg is a past President of the Israeli Division of the International Association for Dental Research. He was President of the International Society for Breath Odor Research from 2004 to 2007 and co-chaired the 6th International Conference on Breath Odor Research in 2004. He is a past editor of the Journal of Microbiological Methods and has authored almost 100 refereed journal articles.