Tonsil Stones/Tonsiloliths and Bad Breath

Tonsil stones, or tonsilloliths, are hard white or yellow formations that are located on or within the tonsils.

It’s common for people with tonsil stones to not even realize they have them. Tonsil stones aren’t always easy to see and they can range from rice-sized to the size of a large grape. Tonsil stones rarely cause larger health complications.

Hi, Here's how I got rid of my tonsil stones, which kept recurring within 2 or 3 days, horrid! Worth saying that you will of course be already practicing good oral health - brushing twice daily, flossing. In my case the nasty tonsil stones were forming from post-nasal drip. I now use Beconase whenever I get a slight sniffle. I learned to take out the tonsil stones using a comedone extractor tool for removing blackheads. It's like a tiny tennis racket without the strings, inexpensive and easily available online. Use a powerful light like the torch on your phone, and a magnifying mirror. Use a q-tip to place some salt on your tongue - it helps to inhibit the gag reflex. The gag reflex is strong and it will take some practice to override it, but the tool can be used to get at the tonsil stones easily without damaging your tonsils. Make sure you get at the ones that may be hiding in the crypts. Once they are all gone, gargle twice daily with Listerine - it's stronger than most mouthwashes and I found my regular mouthwash didn't do the job. Really swish it around the tonsil area where the stones develop. Since doing this, I've had no more recurrences. Nil. What a relief! Hope it helps.

if you kill all oral bacteria the microorganism which are not sensible to mouthwashes will start growing up. Guess what? This wont be bacterias or viruses either. fungus, mushrooms or anything you call them will overpopulated your mouth causing problems.

I suffered from tonsil stones for years, but about 5 years ago I developed a technique to prevent them, and it's worked so well that I figured I should share. First a caveat: I AM NOT A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL AND THIS IS NOT TREATMENT ADVICE. I'm a computer engineer, actually, and high school biology was as far as I got, so take this with a grain of salt - it's most likely dangerous if done incorrectly.

For starters, my doctor told me tonsil stones are caused by a biofilm inhabiting the crypts of your tonsils - biofilms are apparently symbiotic colonies of bacteria that coat surfaces and are the devil to dislodge completely.

So to prevent tonsil stones, you need to find a way to disrupt the biofilm and keep the it under control - you can't really eradicate it, but you can make its life miserable enough that it can't develop tonsil stones.

Preparation:

1. buy a good-quality 10ml borosilicate glass luer lock syringe on Amazon, along with a variety of metal luer lock dispensing needle tips in different sizes (smaller is better, in general - you're going to need the metal tip to fit inside the crypts of your tonsils) - note that dispensing tips are blunt, not sharp
2. it's important that all components are glass and metal - hence sterilizable and reusable
3. fill a clean pan with water that just covers all pieces of the disassembled syringe, then add enough salt to make a good strong saline solution (internet has lots of ratios)
4. rolling boil the apparatus and saline together for 5-10 minutes - from what I've read, everything should be pretty sterile by then (but again, don't take my word for it)
5. let the water cool to a warm but tolerable temperature
6. assemble the syringe, putting a few drops of olive oil or vegetable glycerine in and sliding the piston in and out a few times (the saline is a bit gritty and it tends to lock up otherwise)

Treatment:

1. open your mouth and look in the mirror, then pretend you're choking - you'll discover that with practice, you can sort of roll your tonsils forward while keeping your tongue down (you won't be able to breath in this position, but that's fine cause you'll only need to hold it for a few seconds at a time)
2. when you've figured out how to roll your tonsils forward and expose them, suck up saline into the syringe and gently place the tip slightly into one of the crypts of your tonsil
3. you'll need to figure out how to hold the syringe in one hand while holding a phone/flashlight in the other and looking in the mirror - this can take some practice to be able to actually work the syringe with one hand, but I assure you it's possible
4. now gently apply pressure to the plunger, forcing a stream of saline into the crypt, while gently wiggling the dispensing needle tip around - it will run out of your mouth and most likely squirt all over the mirror, so definitely do this over a sink and be prepared to wash the mirror afterwards
5. if you bleed at all, you're doing it wrong (and I imagine that could be very dangerous, since you could be introducing bacteria into your body) - but with practice, you should be able gently irrigate each crypt in both tonsils systematically - gotta catch 'em all!
6. if you're doing it right, as you gently flush and wiggle, initially you'll flush lots of tonsil stones out (you'll miss a few each time, but do it every day and you'll get them all eventually as your technique improves)

The important thing is to keep it up every day at first - probably for several weeks. Over time, the number of stones will decrease until it drops to zero - but don't stop! Instead, go to every other day, then every two days, etc. If the tonsil stones come back, increase the frequency until they go away again, and eventually you'll (hopefully) reach an equilibrium where you don't get tonsil stones at all, but aren't having to put a ton of time and energy into treatment - I'm down to about once every 3 weeks (unless I'm fighting a cold or allergies or something, in which case I'll go back to once a week for a while).

It's important to attempt to flush all crypts rather than just the ones with stones - if you skip some it can become whack-a-mole, so just do them all.

Again, no promises and I'm sure there's lots of medical risk here (especially if you mess up and get too violent, or don't sanitize each and every time, etc). But this process has drastically improved the quality of my life, so I felt like I had to at least share the information... good luck!