Does anyone have experience with fixing "being a mouth breather"?

[Anonymous]

i've been a mouth breather all my life. i was today years old when i learned, that this isn't normal and tha this negatively impacts facial structure and causes lots of issues. i'm trying to stop doing it but i always catch myself going back to mouth breathing once i'm not actively paying attention.

[MORPHEUS_12]

Nope, my husband is a lifelong mouth breather and it drives me up the wall. He is your age and I blame his parents for not forcing the issue. We even saw an ENT and he said once you started mouth breathing it's very hard to impossible to change that behavior.

[Asker]

yup. it sucks.

[FilmGuy93]

You just have to make a conscious effort to breathe through your nose as much as possible, until it become a habit. You have to train the muscles in your nose and mouth to breathe that way; there's exercises you can find online.

[Asker]

i've been doing that on and off for years now. i know the exercises but it never becomes a habit. as soon as i don't consciously focus on it, i automatically breathe through my mouth.

[FilmGuy93]

That's something you have to work on then. There are no quick ways to build a habit.

[Asker]

not even sure if the habit is the issue or if i need nasal surgery and dental work :/

[FilmGuy93]

Could be... It's probably a combination of factors. You might have muscle weakness, you might suffer from allergies, you might also need surgery. I don't mean to pry, but are you struggling with your weight? I know that my ability to equalize sinus pressure for diving was heavily impacted by my body weight.

[Asker]

well i had allergies but they're mostly gone. just by exposing myself to the allergens. i have asthma tho i won't ever get rid of that. i have no issue with overweight and my lung volume is actually above average.

[Honesttguy]

I got some exercise balls for jaw muscle, to increase muscle size. I would say you might have weak jaw musclr and thats why its hard for you to keep it closed, increased muscle strength will tske less effort to keep it closed.

[Asker]

no, it's not really a "strength" issue (i was at a speech therapist to test this). i just had asthma for all my life and also a tight nasal passage, so i guess i got used to mouth breathing, as it's just easier to breathe that way for and sometimes i litterally can't breath through my nose. mostly it's like the moment i stop breathing "consciously", my mouth opens to breathe. i have to constantly focus.

[Honesttguy]

Exactly most people breath through mouth cus their noses are blocked, body needs oxygen it doesn't care wich way it comes from.

[Honesttguy]

I actually keep humidifier in my room and keep humidity hogh enough, as i noticed when it gets dry my nose blocks and i have to breathe through mouth

[Asker]

yeah but it's like once you're used to that, it's almost impossible to reverse it.

[Asker]

that's a good tip. i might look into that. thanks :D

[Alcoholic_Wannabe]

".. this heavily impacts facial structure an-"

This sentence should be ending with "and this sounds like nofap nonsense and I should really stop talking."

[Asker]

i understand it's not intuitive but it is a fact. i don't know what nofap nonsense is, so i can't comment on that.

mouth breathing is often caused by nasal obstruction, allergies or asthma. in normal people, their mouth is shut while breathing. meaning their lips push on their front teeth and their tongue pushes up against the roof of their mouth and the molars.

during mouth breahting, the mouth is open and tongue down. this leads to a very typical overbite and an "inwards" curve in the molars towards the front. in some unfortunate people, it even leads to the chin going backwards. this is not some bullshit bro science. it's actually a thing dude.

you'd think that such tiny things lacking lip pressure can't possibly make the teeth move but this is definitely true. i know this from my dentist, who's a former army dentist. he said he had a guy who's cheek was torn off my shrapnell and due to the lacking cheek, his molars were slowly moving outward over time.

it's obviously not a thing that happens in a few weeks but it does develop over several years.
nuturition also has a big impact but mouth breathing is pretty bad.

google it up if you don't believe me.

[Alcoholic_Wannabe]

The second you mentioned the chin going back you confirmed that this is manosphere crap.

Good fucking job.

[Asker]

are you trolling me or just too lazy to google? this isn't manosphee crap, it's scientific fact.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4295456/

[Alcoholic_Wannabe]

Not lazy. Intolerant of fucking dumbasses and their supposed "research."

[Asker]

well if you think that "some dumb ass" gets to publish their "manosphere nonsense" on the national library of medicine, i have bad news for you... it takes a fool to believe shit that is not evidently true like religion and bro science. but it takes a special sort of even worse fool to not believe shit that is evidently true.

i have no interest in convincing you of shit that's true. if you wanna stay ignorant, stay ignorant but go on someone elses nerves with your idiocy.

[Honesttguy]

Here in uk, cus of nose blocked most people breathe through their mouths and yes their chins are back and nose comes out. Its real deal bro

[Asker]

@Honesttguy i already blocked that moron xD don't bother :D

[Asker]

sorry. guess blocking doesn't work when i'm anonymous apparently. i'll just delete his brain diarrhea.