Recently, you have not seen a message “open mouth to sleep the more ugly”, is not also like the many netizens on the microblogging cry “finally found the real reason for my ugly, how not to tell me earlier!”
The money reporter looked up the source of the news is a hospital to push an article, illustrated to argue: long-term breathing with the mouth, especially when sleeping with the mouth breathing, will lead to facial deformation, more and more ugly.
The reason for this “ugly” is not the first time I heard of it, will it be true?
The Qianbao reporter asked Fan Yijing, executive director of the Childhood Maxillofacial Development Treatment Center at Hangzhou Stomatological Hospital, Bao Qingfu, attending physician at the Department of Five Organs at Red Cross Hospital, and Wang Limin, director of the Respiratory Department at Hangzhou First People’s Hospital. The answer is that this statement is true!
A good number of children breathe through their mouths because of rhinitis or adenoid hypertrophy.
What is most shocking is that the original article gives several sets of very visual comparison photos.
A girl, pictured at age 6 is clear and attractive, but the article says, “By this time she had begun to have very severe mouth breathing, with almost all of her breathing done by her mouth.” A photo at age 9, the entire shape of the mouth had changed, with two particularly obtrusive buck teeth. “Overall, this child does not look healthy.”
In addition, a pair of sisters in England, a seven-year-old sister and an eight-and-a-half-year-old sister, both breathe through their mouths, but after treatment, the sister used the correct oral position and swallowing style, while the sister failed to change. “The two share similar genes, but their looks are worlds apart long before they reach puberty.”
In the photo, the grown-up sister has a good-looking face with naturally relaxed facial muscles and a face shape that matches the general aesthetic. The sister’s face, on the other hand, appears long, and the muscles in the lower 1/3 of her face appear tense “because she was trying so hard to keep her mouth closed during the photo shoot – she’s used to having her mouth open.”
First of all, let’s explain why someone breathes through their mouth.
Bao Qingfu, an attending physician at the Red Cross Hospital’s Department of Penicology, explains that there are multiple reasons for breathing through the mouth. On the one hand, because of the poor air quality and the high incidence of rhinitis, children will unconsciously open their mouths to breathe when their noses are not working. On the other hand, there is a lymphatic tissue called adenoids in the nasopharynx, and when children are 6 or 7 years old, the adenoids begin to develop, and some of them can become hypertrophic, which can also lead to poor breathing with the nose.
“Currently, children under 12 years old who breathe through their mouths, these two causes account for 7, 80 percent or more.” Bao Qingfu said the weekend clinic, there are many parents with their children to see this problem, is quite common.
Experts: breathing with the mouth will not only become ugly physical, mental and intellectual impact long-term breathing with the mouth, really so shootable?
1, the bad effects on the face is this: Hangzhou Stomatological Hospital Children’s Maxillofacial Development Treatment Center Executive Director Fan Yijing, said that breathing with the mouth will change the face shape. When breathing through the nose, the mouth is closed, and the tip of the tongue at this time is very naturally on the mucosal folds of the palate. However, when you open your mouth to breathe, the tongue drops back down to open the oral cavity, and in the long run, the jawbone (commonly known as the chin), which should have developed downward, tends to develop in a restricted manner to form a receding face.
“Originally, the tip of the tongue was on the upper jaw, the tongue was in a normal position, and the pressure on the teeth was balanced inside and outside. When one side loses strength, the muscles are not balanced anymore, causing the development of the bones to be abnormal as well.” Fan Yijing said, so some children with adenoid hypertrophy affecting the airway will slowly become the face of the mouth this sunken and nose into the sky nose “adenoid face”.
The dry mouth, short and thick upper lip, gum pigmentation due to long-term dry opening, uneven teeth alignment, poor bite, high arched hard palate, narrow dental arch, protruding upper incisors to form buck teeth, etc., these are all chain reactions.
2, in addition to the reduction of human face, there are also bad effects on the body: Wang Limin, director of the respiratory department of the First People’s Hospital of Hangzhou, explained from the respiratory tract. Normal people are using the nose to breathe, not only have nasal hairs to filter particles, nasal secretions will also second adhesion of fine particles, plus the nasal tract is more moist, and the role of heating and humidification. “Use the mouth to breathe, imagine what is sucked in, the throat is particularly susceptible to infection, pharyngitis is the most common.”
3, will also affect the mental state and intelligence: “breathing with the mouth, oxygen inhalation is not enough, the quality of sleep will be poor, people will be easy to doze off during the day, inattentive, and even intelligence will be slightly affected.” Fan Yijing said.
Parents, please be alert: from the age of 4 weeks, children have signs of breathing with the mouth.
Parents should not underestimate the small habits of their children in their lives.
Doctors have warned that whenever you find that your child has been breathing through his or her mouth while sleeping, watching TV, drifting off and other relaxed states, you must pay attention. One more thing, children sleep very fussily at night, tossing and turning, and even snoring, which is also a red flag.
Parents must take their children to the doctor in time to confirm what is causing the breathing through the mouth. Fan Yijing gives advice: Allergic rhinitis is not curable, but it is important to try to keep the nasal airways open, and to seek medical attention to control the symptoms of rhinitis, such as checking for allergens, reducing allergen exposure, and flushing the nasal passages with a nasal flush. In particular, it is important to change the child’s clothes according to the climate change and try not to catch a cold.
In the case of adenoid hypertrophy, surgery is required if the airway is severely affected.
Of course, children with simple bad habits can do some muscle function training. Younger children can use hypoallergenic and breathable oral special tape to stick the upper and lower lips so that they can breathe with their mouths closed. And a little older, you can use a muscle function trainer under the guidance of a doctor to exercise the lip and tongue muscles.
“We also have some oral muscle function training actions, for example, parents can put a piece of gum on the palate of the child’s mouth, train the child’s tongue in the correct position, reinforce memory, and take deep breaths through the nose, etc.” Fan Yijing reminds all parents to pay attention: from the age of 4 weeks, children may show signs of mouth breathing, so be sure to pay attention to their small movements, and never let this small, completely correctable problem affect the child’s appearance.
Looks are still very important!