Mouth alcohol is a problem that causes falsely high readings on DUI breath tests (breathalyzers) and thus results in the wrongful arrest and prosecution of sober, innocent motorists across the country.
In this video, a former Los Angeles prosecutor (now a California DUI defense lawyer) explains that literally dozens of things can cause latent mouth alcohol in a drunk driving case. These include braces, denture, dental pockets, cavities, chewing gum, GERD, acid reflux, burping or belching.
Any of these factors can case latent alcohol to be trapped in the mouth (or reintroduced to the mouth) and this blown into the breathalyzer machine.
DUI breath test machines are designed to measure alcohol content in the deep lung tissue - a region of the lungs called the alveoli. Alveolar alcohol content is thought to correlate with blood alcohol.
But when mouth alcohol if present, this causes alcohol from the mouth (rather than only from the alveoli) to be blown in the device. This always results in an erroneous, falsely high reading.
Consequently, innocent people get arrested and charged with DUI.
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