Breathing through the mouth for a long time may lead to oral diseases, respiratory diseases and changes in appearance.
1. Oral diseases: If you breathe through your mouth for a long time, it will speed up the evaporation of oral saliva, and without the protection and cleaning of saliva in the mouth, tooth decay and periodontal diseases will easily occur. Moreover, long time breathing with mouth will also cause air directly stimulate to the oral cavity, thus causing oral dryness, oral mucosa lesions.
2. Respiratory diseases: prolonged breathing through the mouth, the dust and bacteria in the air directly enter the airway without filtering and heating and humidifying the nasal cavity, which will cause a certain degree of damage to the airway, and the stimulation over time may induce bronchitis and other diseases.
3. Appearance changes: normal nasal breathing can to a certain extent to protect the normal development of human teeth and jaws and face, but long time breathing through the mouth will exercise to the muscles around the mouth and other tissues, the serious may also make the mouth deformation, upper incisor convex, dental irregularities and so on.
If breathing through the mouth is found, it is recommended to use nasal breathing to breathe and change the bad habit of breathing through the mouth. Meanwhile, it is also recommended to actively exclude nasal diseases such as chronic rhinitis, hypertrophied turbinate, nasal polyps, deviated nasal septum or paranasal sinusitis, etc., which will cause part or all of the respiratory tract not to be smooth, and to change to open-mouth breathing. It is also important to rule out the presence of sleep apnea syndrome to avoid adverse effects on the body.