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Mouth Breathing Can Create Health Issues

Mouth breathing is very often caused and/or made worse by seasonal allergies that cause nasal and upper airway obstruction. Many of the physical, medical and social problems associated with mouth breathing are not recognized by most health care professional, according to a study published in the Jan/Feb 2010 issue of General Dentistry, which is the journal of the Academy of General Dentistry.

Because dentists see their patients more frequently than family physicians, they are often the first medical professional not notice the mouth breathing habit. Dentists understand many of the related problem associated with mouth breathing and are able to advise their patient and make the proper referral.

Dr. Yosh Jefferson, author of the study, feels that mouth breathing “is an unrecognized epidemic that touches every family and industrialized country”.