Bad breath
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stop drinking coffee and brush your teeth before dance class
Mints and gum aren't lasting solutions to bad breath. Brush your tongue, gargle with hydrogen peroxide and drink water. Dehydration can cause bad breath. Eat regularly, too.
Brush your teeth before class, down some Listerine, or even chew some gum.
+1 And use a tongue scraper as well.
Stop drinking alcohol. Do not use Listerine as its alcohol will dry your mouth out. Always brush your tongue when you brush your teeth.
Forget the breath mints. Stop using your Tabac on dance nights!
Jeff in Boston
And throw out your lilac vegetal! You don't want your partner to think you bathed in a septic tank.
Seriously, I took the ballroom dancing leisure leaning class at LSU and had a blast.
Dr. Tung's tongue scraper is the answer: http://www.dreamcastle.com/tungs/
If you do none of the above you will know who like you for who you are 
Binaca. Nothing would make you look more awesome than whipping out your Binaca for a few squirts before stepping out onto the dance floor for a waltz.
+1 and drink water to keep your mouth hydrated.
Altoids Smalls are great... and yes, they're sugar-free
And of course brush your teeth and tongue, floss and use mouthwash-- I like Lavoris. No coffee for at least a couple of hours prior, and drink water. You'll be good to go.
But if you have chronic bad breath, you should see a dentist.
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brush, floss, tongue cleaner, mouth wash and more water
Ditto, and stay away from coffee. Nothing worse than stale coffee breath.
Apparantly the key is just to make sure you are brushing your tongue, you can just do it with your toothbrush, I heard an interview on the radio with some oral hygeine expert and he said a lot of these fancy tongue scrapers and bad breath brushes are just gimmicks. But your tongue has enormous surface area so you need to clean it.
With mouth wash, as I recall the only ones which actually work are ones that contain some sort of chlorine compound, can't remember what specifically, because it chemically converts the smelling sulfur compounds into something neutral, but I was looking at the different mouthwashes at the drug store and couldn't find anything with it.
With mouth wash, as I recall the only ones which actually work are ones that contain some sort of chlorine compound, can't remember what specifically, because it chemically converts the smelling sulfur compounds into something neutral, but I was looking at the different mouthwashes at the drug store and couldn't find anything with it.
One more thing that hasn't been mentioned, and may not even apply to you ... don't smoke before class.
Duct tape has always worked for me.
