I recently took up swing dancing, which gives me the opportunity to dance with girls/women ranging in age from 10 to 70. So I’ve danced with some high-school-age girls – the first time in a long time I’ve had close physical contact with girls that age – and I find some of them have really bad breath. Have the standards of oral hygiene declined recently, or is this just a side effect of teenage hormones that I never noticed before?
More likely a result of smoking.
Laziness and bad diet. I’d like to think that I don’t have to remind…and remind and remind and remind…a teenage girl to brush her teeth. I’d be wrong.
No, it doesn’t smell like tobacco-breath at all.
Do they have braces? Those can be hard to keep clean.
Diet. Teenage girls are notoriously bad with diet, especially with today’s tight fashions (you could hide a lot more under those big baggy sweatshirts in the 80’s!). Low carb dieting in particular is noted for its awful breath side effect.
Honestly, unless you go up to them and ask point-blank, I don’t think you can give one universal answer. It could be anything from severe crippling halitosis to forgetting to brush their teeth in the morning.
:grabs belt buckle:
Goddamn kids! In my day we took oral hygiene seriously. And we liked it that way!
Ummm. Young girls worry about their weight a lot. There is a “certain thing” that many of them do to avoid gaining weight. Their breath afterwards is going to be absolutely awful. Forget covering it up with a breath mint.
There’s a lot of messed up things going on out there.