James Nestor

But now the majority of dentists I talk to who study the airway say the number one cause of cavities is mouth breathing.

If you look at 50% of kids are mouth breathing.

That's a high range, but around half of kids are mouth breathing, especially at night.

Most kids are mouth breathing at night.

To think that this could be the number one cause of their cavities, this is information I would think parents would want to know about.

So we're born as perfect breathers, right?

A healthy baby.

Look at a healthy baby.

It's a beautiful thing.

Every breath, their stomach's moving out.

They exhale.

The stomach comes in again.

They're breathing in and out of their nose because healthy babies learn how to do this because they're breastfeeding so often.

If you're going to be feeding and breathing, that's the only way to do it.

Breathing in and out of your nose.

So we lose this at around the age of five to six when we start going to school and start sitting up, spend 90% of our time indoors.

That environment is not conducive to breathing.

It's against our evolution.

It's against what we have become adapted to be doing.

So one of the first thing that happens is our breathing starts going into the mouth because we tend to have allergies, right?