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What if having an attractive face isn’t determined solely but genetics, but rather by where your tongue is resting in your mouth? Crazy, I know. What could the location of your tongue possibly have to do with good bone structure? Well, as it turns out, everything.
About a year ago I learned there is such a thing as correct mouth posture (thanks to a random You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. YouTube recommended to me). When your mouth is at rest, your lips should be together, your top and bottom molars should be touching, and your tongue should be plastered to the roof of your mouth. Until a year ago, I had never given any thought to what my mouth was doing at rest. Little did I know, I was violating all three of the above rules for correct mouth posture, and it was affecting my body and my facial structure. I had been a mouth breather my entire life, and at rest, my mouth was slightly open, my teeth were apart, and my tongue was sitting at the bottom of my mouth. I had no idea being a mouth breather wasn’t normal, I just thought that’s how some people were.
There are two very important reasons to have correct mouth posture:
1, for proper facial development, including straight teeth that don’t need braces.
2, by keeping your mouth closed, this forces you to breathe through your nose, which has important benefits for your body that I will cover in a separate post.
Why Are Some People Mouth Breathers?
We’re supposed to adopt correct oral posture as babies; it’s something babies do naturally. So why do some children become mouth breathers? Allergies, be they food or environmental, which lead to a stuffed up nose and no other choice but to breathe through the mouth. Using sippy cups and pacifiers forces the tongue to rest on the bottom of the mouth. Same with thumb sucking. These promote incorrect mouth postures which then become a chronic habit. Another theory I came across is that because our diet has become so soft, we’re not using our jaw muscles to chew our food nearly as much as we used to, leading to weak jaw muscles that aren’t strong enough to keep our mouths shut. There might be something to that, because I can keep my mouth closed during the day by consciously thinking about it, but my mouth still falls open when I’m sleeping.
Mouth Breathing and Its Effects on Facial Structure
Below are examples of children who had incorrect oral posture from mouth breathing and you can see the dramatic effects it has on facial development. The “after” photos are after establishing correct oral posture through Orthotropic treatment.
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About a year ago I learned there is such a thing as correct mouth posture (thanks to a random You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. YouTube recommended to me). When your mouth is at rest, your lips should be together, your top and bottom molars should be touching, and your tongue should be plastered to the roof of your mouth. Until a year ago, I had never given any thought to what my mouth was doing at rest. Little did I know, I was violating all three of the above rules for correct mouth posture, and it was affecting my body and my facial structure. I had been a mouth breather my entire life, and at rest, my mouth was slightly open, my teeth were apart, and my tongue was sitting at the bottom of my mouth. I had no idea being a mouth breather wasn’t normal, I just thought that’s how some people were.
There are two very important reasons to have correct mouth posture:
1, for proper facial development, including straight teeth that don’t need braces.
2, by keeping your mouth closed, this forces you to breathe through your nose, which has important benefits for your body that I will cover in a separate post.
Why Are Some People Mouth Breathers?
We’re supposed to adopt correct oral posture as babies; it’s something babies do naturally. So why do some children become mouth breathers? Allergies, be they food or environmental, which lead to a stuffed up nose and no other choice but to breathe through the mouth. Using sippy cups and pacifiers forces the tongue to rest on the bottom of the mouth. Same with thumb sucking. These promote incorrect mouth postures which then become a chronic habit. Another theory I came across is that because our diet has become so soft, we’re not using our jaw muscles to chew our food nearly as much as we used to, leading to weak jaw muscles that aren’t strong enough to keep our mouths shut. There might be something to that, because I can keep my mouth closed during the day by consciously thinking about it, but my mouth still falls open when I’m sleeping.
Mouth Breathing and Its Effects on Facial Structure
Below are examples of children who had incorrect oral posture from mouth breathing and you can see the dramatic effects it has on facial development. The “after” photos are after establishing correct oral posture through Orthotropic treatment.
Continue
Source:
You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. ground.word press.com/2016/07/17/what-makes-a-face-attractive-its-all-in-the-tongue/amp/
