The mouth is the entrance to the body and is linked to the stomach, lungs and brain.
An anatomical connection?
Yes, that’s why I stopped putting braces on, 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.
A time when cleaning our teeth is not a priority?
Yes, and the hormones, especially in women, that 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 swollen gums.
So?
Better elements that can be removed and put on. But we bring 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.
It is not like this?
Depending on whether you take hard or soft things, whether you breathe through your mouth or nose, your mouth will be more or less healthy. During menopause you have to work on muscle strength to be well, the same thing happens with your mouth.
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Due to the hormonal change, the gums are at greater risk of being swollen or suffering from pyorrhea and we have to give them vigorous exercise: eat hard things.
Understood.
There are many muscles involved in chewing; If our jaw is poorly positioned with respect to the skull and shoulders, we will have muscle pain and we can end up with suboccipital pain.
The normal thing is to go to the physiotherapist.
Yes, but without this pain being resolved since it has been generated by poor chewing due to a cavity or a missing tooth. 78% of the population eats more on one side than the other, it is like going on a lame foot.
The mouth must be full of bacteria.
Many of them are friends that help us produce vitamins and fatty acids, but if we spend more than eight hours without cleaning our teeth they become bad; Today we know that they are related to colorectal cancer, Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.
How is that?
These bacteria can pass into the digestive system, the circulatory bloodstream and go to the heart, the brain, the knee or any part of the body through any small wound in the mouth.
What do mouth and headaches have to do with each other?
When you breathe through your mouth, you advance your lower jaw, your neck moves forward and the weight of your head doubles for your cervical spine.
Breathing should not be oral.
And if you are admitted to a hospital after having had surgery and your mouth is bad, there is a high percentage of you contracting nosocomial pneumonia (those that develop in the hospital itself). It would be an advance if dental hygiene is taken into account in hospitals.
What is correct hygiene?
Some strong mouthwashes have an antibiotic effect and kill 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 at bay.
So we need them.
Yes. Ideal hygiene is to clean the interdental spaces well with dental floss or interproximal brushes, an oral irrigator, and then manual or electric brushing.
What if one afternoon I can’t clean them?
If the foods you eat are hard, chewing itself cleanses the mouth; and finish the meal with an apple, cranberries or nuts. Afterwards, green tea is better than coffee. Green tea breaks down the plaque of bacteria that is accumulating.
What toothpaste should I use?
That it does not have toxins, endocrine disruptors or parabens, better ecological; but above all pay attention to what you eat.
explain yourself
Chewing hard foods while keeping your mouth closed generates a good amount of saliva that is like toothpaste, and the cushion of the tooth will be harder, this is a really important change for health.
Are there vitamins that help us keep our mouth healthy?
Vitamin D, of which we tend to be 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.
By chewing hard things and breathing through our nose we are more handsome. Paul Newman has never breathed through his mouth, which is why he had a square jaw and high cheekbones.
