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Recently, many cases have been reported of individuals who complain of having halitosis which no one else can smell and for which there is no local or systemic cause. We call this condition “Self-halitosis”. Self-halitosis can be caused by either psychosomatic or psychiatric disorders. We have been treating such patients with brief courses of psychotherapy without using drugs. For patients with psychiatric disorders, we emphasize the importance of psychiatric treatment, but such patients often refuse to be treated by a psychiatrist because they are convinced that they really do have bad breath.
In this paper, we report a case of self-halitosis considered to have been induced by skin disease. The patient was a 31-year-old man and his symptoms were relieved by a brief course of psychotherapy.
