How to know if there are tonsil stones

To know whether you have tonsil stones or not, clinically you can mainly judge from the following aspects: first, symptoms, tonsil stones may not have obvious symptoms, but patients may have recurrent bad breath, foreign body sensation in the throat and other related discomfort. Second, physical examination, physical examination is the easiest way to diagnose, clinically you can ask the patient to open his mouth, use the tongue depressor to press the front 1/3 of the tongue, check the surface of the tonsils bilaterally whether there are yellowish tonsil stones, this situation is not difficult to diagnose. Some patients such as tonsil stones are buried inside the crypt, clinically you can go to the hospital and let the doctor check with an attractor or with a stripper to see if there are no tonsil stones in the deep part. Third, clinically, you can determine whether there are tonsil stones by doing electronic laryngoscopy or CT examination of the pharynx.