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Rapid diagnosis of pathologies, including oncology, is a major challenge in medical practice. Oral malodor is ubiquitously associated with local mouth pathologies but is rarely used for diagnosing remote pathologies or systemic disease. Oral malodors are not all the same. This appraisal re-affirms different types of oral and non-oral malodors as ozaena, ozostomia, halitosis, or stomatodysodia and indicates how using gas-chromatography (GC) on stomatodysodia evaluates common oral malodors and how by using GC to investigate exhaled breath is becoming a promising method for screening and diagnosing remote pathologies and/or associated comorbidities, to provide a rapid, accurate, reliable and affordable diagnosis may facilitate rapid, and accurate diagnosis of disease, by identifying specific GC patterns of volatile organic compounds (VOC) derived from specific pathologies including cancers.

 

Keywords: Breath; Olfaction; Exhaled; Oral-Malodor; Halitosis; Ozaena; Gas-Chromatography; diagnosis; Stomatodysodia; Smell