Journal of Interdisciplinary Medicine (Sep 2023)

Pseudohalitosis – More than a Complicated Multidisciplinary Case

  • Cerghedi Alessandra-Aniela,
  • Trif Denisa-Paula,
  • Salcudean Andreea,
  • Molnar-Varlam Cristina

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2478/jim-2023-0008
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 3
pp. 65 – 67

Abstract

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Halitophobia is also known as false halitosis or psychosomatic halitosis. This pseudo-pathology originates from the somatization of the compulsive idea that the patient has bad breath in the absence of oral pathology.

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