The mouth is the entrance to the body and is connected to the stomach, lungs and brain.
An anatomical connection?
Yes, that’s why I stopped putting braces, they are fixed and I don’t like that constant force on children’s growing skulls, and they accumulate a lot of dirt because their use usually coincides with adolescence.
An era when brushing your teeth is not a priority?
Indeed, and hormones are added, especially in women, which cause our gums to become inflamed. When we remove the braces, the teeth may be very well aligned, but there will be cavities and super-inflamed gums.
then?
It is better if they are elements that can be removed and put on. But we carry everything as standard to grow well. Until recently I thought that if you have a crooked mouth or a small jaw it was genetic and nothing could be done about it.
Isn’t that so?
Depending on whether you take hard or soft things, whether you breathe through your mouth or through your nose, your mouth will be more or less healthy. In menopause, the experts tell us that it is necessary to work on muscle strength to be well, because the same thing happens with the mouth.
…?
Due to the hormonal change, the gums are more at risk of being inflamed or with pyorrhea and we have to give them strength exercise: eat hard things.
Understood.
There are many muscles involved in chewing; if we have the jaw incorrectly positioned in relation to the skull and shoulders, we will have muscle pain and may end up with suboccipital pain.
The normal thing in this case is to end up as a physiotherapist.
Yes, but without that pain being resolved, since it has been generated by poor mastication due to decay or the lack of a tooth. 78% of the population eats more on one side than the other, it’s like walking with a limp.
The mouth must be full of bacteria.
Many of them are friends who help us produce vitamins and fatty acids, but if we go more than eight hours without brushing our teeth, these bacteria become bad; today we know that they are related to colorectal cancer, Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.
How is it?
These bacteria can pass into the digestive system, the circulatory blood stream and go to the heart, the brain, the knee or any part of the body through any small wound that we have in the mouth.
What do mouths and headaches have to do with each other?
When you breathe through your mouth you move the lower jaw forward, the neck moves forward and the weight of the head on the cervical spine doubles.
Breathing should not be oral.
And if you are admitted to a hospital after surgery and your mouth is bad, there is a high percentage of you contracting nosocomial pneumonia (those that develop in the same hospital). It would be progress if dental hygiene were taken into account in hospitals.
What is the correct hygiene?
Some strong mouthwashes have an antibiotic effect and load both bad and good bacteria; and there are studies that relate it to blood pressure. Certain bacteria produce nitric oxide, which helps us keep blood pressure in check.
In other words, we need them.
Yes. The ideal hygiene is to thoroughly clean the interdental spaces with dental floss or interproximal brushes, a mouth irrigator, and then manual or electric brushing.
What if I can’t brush my teeth at noon?
If the food you eat is hard, chewing already cleans the mouth; and finish the meal with an apple, blueberries or nuts. Afterwards, better a green tea than a coffee. Green tea breaks up the plaque of bacteria that is accumulating.
What toothpaste should I use?
That it does not have toxins, endocrine disruptors or parabens, if it is organic the better; but above all pay attention to what you eat.
explain yourself
Chewing hard food while keeping the mouth closed generates a good amount of saliva that is like toothpaste, and the tooth buffer will be harder, this is a really important change for health.
Are there vitamins that help us keep our mouths healthy?
Vitamin D, of which we are deficient, is essential to have good bone health, strong teeth and less pyorrhea; K2, which tells calcium where to go, and omega 3, which is anti-inflammatory.
OK.
Chewing hard things and breathing through the nose makes us more handsome. Paul Newman has never breathed through his mouth, which is why he had a square jaw and high cheekbones.
