Breathing with your mouth open for a long time will lead to a kind of "chin-less" facial features-the upper lip is thickened and everted, the lower lip is retracted, the teeth are displaced, the malocclusion is poor, the nasolabial groove is shallow, the bridge of the nose is low, and the chin is shortened. Some children breathe, talk and eat with their mouths, so there will be choking and inattention.
Hu Hu, director of pediatrics at Liaoning Provincial People's Hospital, said that healthy children don't open their mouths, but breathe through their noses. If a child sleeps at night and breathes with his mouth open, it is often because there is something wrong with his nose, which leads to poor ventilation. It is not advisable for his parents to tape his mouth. He should go to the otolaryngology department in time. Under normal circumstances, the general breathing is done by the nasal cavity. If the nasal cavity is diseased and the nasal airway is blocked, we have to use oral breathing to partially or completely replace nasal breathing. There are also a few people who have no nasal diseases and just habitually breathe through their mouths. Occasionally oral breathing is a normal phenomenon, and long-term oral breathing will cause serious harm.
When a child breathes with his mouth open, it will form a special face shape in the long run-the upper lip is upturned, the lower lip falls, the lips become thicker, the teeth are uneven, the bridge of the nose collapses, the palatal arch is high, the chin becomes shorter, and the eyes are dull. But parents should know that the child is not breathing with his mouth open for no reason, but there may be something wrong with a certain part of his body. Adenoid hypertrophy is probably the reason why children breathe with their mouths open. Compulsory tape sealing can not only improve the problem, but also delay the disease.
Long-term oral breathing will cause underdeveloped nasal cavity and high arch of palatal lid; The ugly mouth shape will also cause the crowded upper dentition to protrude forward and the teeth to protrude outward. In the long run, it will develop into mandibular protrusion, mandibular retraction and long face deformity.
It's a fact that breathing with your mouth open really turns ugly.