Dysfunctional breathing and crowding of teeth
Overview
Ideally we should breath through our nose 8-12 times/minute, with our tongue resting on our palate.
Our nose is designed to filter, warm and humidify the air we breathe.
We swallow 2000/day ideally our tongue resting on the roof of our mouth. In this way our upper jaw may develop to its full potential with enough room for our lower jaw and for all 32 teeth that nature has provided us.
If we breathe through our mouth, our breathing is dysfunctional. Our upper and lower jaws may not develop to their full potential, the air will not be filtered, our bodies may be more acidic and our posture can also be affected.
Mouth breathing or dysfunctional breathing affects whole-body health.
Has something simple been overlooked?
- Less than 5% of people breathe efficiently. They over breathe through the mouth, rather than slowly through the nose to warm, filter and humidify the air.
- Ideally we should breathe 8-12 breaths/minute, through our nose and from the diaphragm
- Dysfunctional breathing results in a lower carbon dioxide level
- Carbon dioxide is the critical factor in ensuring that oxygen is released by our red blood cells and helps energise every cell in your body.
- Incorrect breathing SIGNIFICANTLY lowers carbon dioxide levels and reduces oxygen supply to your cells.
- Low carbon dioxide levels mean that the haemoglobin in our blood does not release the oxygen throughout the body , which may result in feeling like you have less energy
- Bigger and deeper breaths actually REDUCE the amount of oxygen that is available – not increase it.
- Breathing in through the NOSE and out through the MOUTH is the wrong way to breathe.
- Dysfunctional breathing makes the body more acidic and prone to dental problems
- Dysfunctional breathing can result in narrower upper and lower jaws resulting in crowding of teeth
- Incorrect breathing can affect every one of the body’s eleven functional systems and may cause everything from night-time trips to the toilet to crooked teeth and narrow jaws in children.
What is a Capnometer and CapnoLearning?
Capnometer is a medical device used to accurately measure the amount of carbon dioxide in the exhaled breath.
CapnoLearning™ iis a breathing program designed to help you understand how all eleven of the body’s systems operate and how dysfunctional breathing can affect them all.
The Eleven Body Systems are:
- Circulatory
- Digestive
- Endocrine/Hormone
- Immune/Lymphatic
- Integumentary (Skin)
- Muscular
- Nervous
- Reproductive
- Respiratory
- Skeletal
- Urinary
The program is designed to enable people to understand what is happening, to find out what caused it and to learn what they themselves can do to correct the situation.
It is not about ‘treatment’ or ‘being fixed’ by someone external. It is about understanding the relationship between what that person is doing and the situation or condition that has occurred.
It also teaches how healthy efficient breathing is central to ALL body systems. Dysfunctional breathing may contribute to many long-term and chronic illnesses, which have may not have responded to medications.
Benefits of Breathing-retraining Program
The program is based on empowering people to bring about such changes themselves rather than rely on someone else to “fix” them.
The benefits experienced by both adults and children focusing on breathing optimally and undertaking this breathing program may include the following:
- Improving quality of sleep
- Reduction in snoring
- Reducing body acidity
- Less anxiety and tension
- Reduction in medication for asthma, gastric disorders and hypertension
- More energy on waking
- More stamina for daytime activities
- Natural control of anxiety/panic attacks
- Improved memory and recall
Children in particular may benefit by:
- Better stability for correcting crooked teeth and narrow upper jaws
- Better quality and less disturbed sleep
- Elimination of mouth breathing
- Fewer Ear, Nose and Throat infections
- Improvement in concentration and behaviour
- Improved exercise and sports performance
