Some people are madly, deeply, perpetually obsessed with bad breath. In most of them, this obsession is a sign of mental problems. The great exception is Mel Rosenberg, whose pursuit of bad breath is scholarly and experimental. Halitosis has taken him to the academic heights. Mel Rosenberg is professor of microbiology at Tel Aviv University’s medical school, and holds honorary appointments both at the University of London and at the University of Rochester in the US.
Professor Rosenberg is a destroyer of myths….
So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian.