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passive, but a functional feedback system.
That's why if you don't wear a retainer after
treatment with orthodontic braces, the
teeth can move because of an underlying
functional problem.
Nasal breathing has an expansive force on
the upper jaw.1 Your tongue should press up
against the palate, which forms the floor of
the nasal airways. These forces, with proper
closed lip and muscle posture, influence the
growth of "straight" teeth.

Every moment matters
Let's go right back to the start of the
problem and really understand how crooked
teeth happen. Breastfeeding is a major
influence on jaw growth and trains a child
in nasal breathing. Their tongue extracts
milk by pushing the nipple to the roof of
the mouth. These forces expand their palate.
Breastfeeding has been shown to decrease
the risk of crooked teeth.2 It's the start of a
lifetime of factors that influence jaw size.
A child's ability to breastfeed may be
due to his oral development. Ideally, the
first dental exam should occur right after
birth, revealing oral restrictions such as

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tongue or lip ties, which could hinder
the ability to push the tongue against the
palate.3 Dentists, surgeons and ENTs can
now diagnose and release tongue ties to
assist with breastfeeding.
After breastfeeding, children continue
to develop their oral muscles, lip closure,
tongue posture (sitting against the palate)
and breathing, which influences their growth.
The standard orthodontic approach has been
to delay action until the adult dentition has
formed. In some cases, teeth are extracted
and the remaining teeth straightened with
braces to fit into small jaws. However, this
approach fails to address what caused the
problem in the first place.
Small jaws prevent us from breathing
properly, and sleep disorder rates have
increased in the past two decades.4 Without
the frame to support airways when muscles
relax at night, we are starving our brains
of oxygen. The end stage is obstructive
sleep apnea, which is linked to high blood
pressure, heart failure5 and brain disease.6
Upper airway resistance, meanwhile, is a
lesser recognized and diagnosed breathing
disorder.7 It's also a driver of digestive
disorders, anxiety, poor circulation and
a host of other symptoms. 8
Our airways aren't only stuck in small
jawbones. They also have swollen soft tissues.
In many people, especially children, airways
are also inf lamed, swollen and clogged
with mucus. Allergic rhinitis, asthma, and
swollen adenoids and tonsils are barriers to
nasal breathing.9
The oral and gut microbiome plays a
crucial role in how bacteria mediate the
immune response. Since 2008, the scientific
world has been sequencing this foreign
yet symbiotic organ that lives in the body.
Imbalanced microbes cause intestinal barrier
dysfunction, which is linked to digestive,
autoimmune and metabolic disorders. 10



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