{"id":7998,"date":"2026-08-19T21:59:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T17:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nbdental.ge\/pirit-suntkva-bavshvebshi\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:22:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T07:22:01","slug":"pirit-suntkva-bavshvebshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nbdental.ge\/en\/pirit-suntkva-bavshvebshi\/","title":{"rendered":"How Does Mouth Breathing Affect a Child’s Facial Structure?!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Breathing is life. It is such a natural part of life that most people don’t even think about it..<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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For example, do you know whether your child breathes through their mouth or their nose? Most parents can’t answer this question, let alone know how much harm mouth breathing does to a child’s body.<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If your child breathes through their mouth, it can affect their immune system, concentration and mood, and can also change how the facial bones develop.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mouth breathing can change the development of your child’s whole body, as well as their health throughout their life.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Raymond Silkman shares his many years of experience with patients,<\/em><\/strong> explains the orthodontic approach and shows us the bigger picture of what happens when a child breathes through their mouth…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Normal breathing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Compared with nasal breathing, mouth breathing has a truly destructive effect on a child’s body. Humans are not designed to breathe through the mouth. The mouth is designed only for making sounds and eating. At all other times, the mouth should be relaxed but closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a child breathes normally, their breathing is quiet, rhythmic and effortless; normally, air is breathed in through the nose while the lips are closed. The diaphragm draws air into the lungs and fills them completely. When the body is fully oxygenated, the nervous system can be in a parasympathetic state – a relaxed state that is essential for the organs to work properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facial structure and mouth breathing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Mouth breathing has a wide range of consequences, from irritability to deteriorating health. The main problems include chronically dry lips, mouth and teeth, which then contribute to caries; but more often, mouth breathing causes crowded teeth, underdeveloped jaws and delayed facial development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you breathe through your mouth for a long time, the cheek muscles stretch. The tense muscles put a lot of pressure on the jaws, which narrows the dental arch and the palate. Also, the tongue, which should naturally rest against the roof of the mouth, drops down, the upper dental arch narrows and the middle third of the face doesn’t develop normally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects of oxygen deficiency<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mouth breathers often use the wrong parts of the body to breathe: they breathe in the upper chest instead of using the diaphragm. Because the body has to spend a lot of energy lifting the ribs to inhale, breathing is difficult. Not enough air collects in the lungs, so the body doesn’t get enough oxygen. Because of this, they may develop a habit of yawning – the body’s way of trying to make up for the lack of oxygen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This type of breathing is unstable and disrupts the biochemical system and the organs that need a calm nervous system to function: digestion, nutrient distribution, sleep and hormones, growth, mood and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mouth breathing also has a very big effect on a child’s mental development. Because of the lack of oxygen, they have trouble falling asleep at night. When they wake up they are tired and find it hard to concentrate and pay attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Structural changes in the body<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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To compensate for the developmental deficits caused by abnormal breathing, the body develops a forward head posture. This in turn puts great stress on the muscles of the neck, shoulders and spine. The result is a chronically tense neck, head, shoulders and lower back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The changes in the body continue with deformation of the hips, then the ankles and feet, as well as the internal organs, which depend on a normal body structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Find out how mouth breathing harms your child’s facial structure, teeth and health. Discover the causes of the problem and orthodontic solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-orthodontics","category-tips"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nbdental.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nbdental.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nbdental.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbdental.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbdental.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nbdental.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8184,"href":"https:\/\/nbdental.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7998\/revisions\/8184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbdental.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nbdental.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbdental.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbdental.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}