Here’s something for those who fear that cleaning your tongue with a scraper would damage your taste buds. Well, its all a myth.

Tongue scraping is a common activity that is practiced since centuries in many Eastern countries. People in the other part of the world do not often scrape their tongue for fear of damaging their taste buds.

Well, it is a scientifically established fact that even if your taste buds are damaged due to burning, it takes only 48 hours to get replaced. And the tongue does it on its own!

Here are some reasons why you must scrape your tongue after brushing your teeth.

• Brushing only removes the food materials and bacteria from your teeth and leaves the tongue unclean.
• Using tongue scraper is an easy way to clean your tongue.
• Instead of using mouth wash and other chemicals to cleanse your mouth, use a tongue scraper because it is free of chemicals.
• Cleaning the tongue using a tongue scraper removes the bacteria, plaque and other wastes from the tongue.
• Bacteria in the tongue could result in several respiratory and heart diseases.
• It also reduces bad breath and tooth decay.
• The odor causing bacteria resides in the posterior part of the tongue which is often left unclean. Cleaning these bacteria in the tongue reduces the sulfur compound level in the mouth that causes bad breath.