EP 57 : Your Mouth, is the portal into Your Body
Just how can your mouth affect your body, to start you need to understand what happens in your mouth. Plaque and bacteria buildup on teeth the longer they go undisturbed the more they multiply. When you eat or drink you feed them creating an acid making both your teeth and gums susceptible to infection. The immune system intervenes to attack the bacterial infection to keep the gums from becoming inflamed and bleeding. If the infection is allowed to continue without disruption the inflammation continues.
Dental infections are silent; you do not feel them until a later stage. It can spread to the face, skull, bloodstream, even the heart, liver and kidneys. If you have bleeding gums, your tooth aches, you have a fever, earache, or pain in your jaw or shoulders, you will need to see a professional your physician, dentist or periodontist for treatment as soon as possible, before you get a toothache or worse a systemic infection.
The # 1 thing your body need to survive is oxygen.
Every part of your body needs oxygen to survive.
It’s important to establish nasal breathing as soon as possible at any stage of life. Nasal breathing has important sensory and neurological functions that provide 18% more oxygen to your body and it’s the foundation of all proper breathing patterns.
Mouth breathing, on the other hand, contributes to many structural and functional problems and contributes to an avalanche of health issues.
Even when mouth breathing is corrected postural and oral muscle functional issues can remain and need to be addressed with Oral Myofunctional Therapy. An assessment will help to determine if you need further treatment.
It may also be necessary to see a dentist or ear, nose and throat physician to correct structural issues and optimise the airway size.
I have only touched on the surface of how your mouth is connected to the health of your body.
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