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"Clinical Dilemmas Posed by Patients with Psychosomatic Halitosis," K. Yaegaki and J.M. Coil, Quintessence International, vol. 30, no. 5, May 1999, pp. 328-33. (Thanks to Francis Filbert for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, who are at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, report that
Individuals who are concerned with their own oral malodor but exhibit no oral malodor may have latent psychosomatic tendencies and may be mentally immature.
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