Mouth breathing- do you breathe through your nose or mouth?

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There are many people who breath through their mouth more than they breath through their nose. It's common among many to sleep with an Open mouth! Mouth breathing sometimes will be of no concern but only breathing through mouth will cause some problems. It affects the dentofacial structure. The teeth and the Gingiva(upper gums) are affected and the same time they will have some speech problem. There are different causes of mouth breathing. In some is the cause is obstructive that is they start breathing through mouth because there is some obstruction in the nasal passage like enlarged adenoids, deviated nasal septum. Some times even after the removal of obstruction child keeps on breathing through mouth then that habit becomes habitual. The mouth breathing habit if persists affects the dento facial structures. These are effects on the facial form & it is seen that the children who breathe through mouth due to the hypertrophied lymphoid tissue show more vertical growth. They have long faces and sometimes it is called as Adenoid faces. There faces have typical long and narrow appearance with narrow nose and nasal passage. Affect on the teeth and the arches mouth breathers they keep the mouth open so the flaring of the upper teeth is seen. We can see the open bite that means the upper front teeth do not cover the lower front teeth. People who breathes through mouth so the tongue is positioned downwards to make the airways. This causes the imbalance in the forces and the narrow maxillary arch causing the posterior cross bite. Effect on speech in mouth breathers’ speech can also be affected if the cause of nasal obstruction is not removed. The mouth breathers have the nasal accent. Other effects the mouth breathers have the expressionless face. The activities of the muscles differ in the mouth breathers and the nose breathers. Mouth breather have the frequent attacks of ear infection also. These problems may happens with continuous mouth breathing. So do you Breathe through your nose or mouth?