An influencer has caught the attention tick tock for testing something she herself learned on the platform. As she observed, sleeping with your mouth open can change the shape of your face. Understand!
Olivia Sweet is just one of many people who are trying out the new “trend” of taping their mouths shut before bed to keep them closed at night. In addition to some aesthetic problems such as a double chin, changes in the facial structure should also be avoided. But is that really true?
After all, can breathing with your mouth open change the shape of your face?
Mouth breathing is often associated with health problems such as snoring, sleep and respiratory failure. When someone breathes through their mouth for a long period of time, the pressure of the tongue on the roof of the mouth decreases, which can lead to poor development of the upper and lower jaw.
If left unchecked, this habit can cause abnormal facial bone growth and sleep problems. In this way, it is ideal to keep our mouth closed when we sleep, not only for health reasons, but also because we do not know what could end up going in there without realizing it.
According to the sleepQ+ website, we should only breathe through our mouths when there is an impediment to using our nose, such as in cases of “nasal congestion due to a cold, a deviated septum, nasal polyps, allergic rhinitis, asthma, fractures and congenital nasal malformations”.
Explaining in her videos on TikTok that sleeping with your mouth open is a bad idea and could lead to facial changes, Olivia Sweet decided to “train” herself to sleep with her mouth closed with duct tape. The influencer claimed to be more mindful of her own mouth during the day when she’s awake, trying to keep it closed and resting her tongue on the roof of her mouth.
A month later, Olivia posted a new video showing the “after” of sleeping for 30 days with her mouth taped shut and showing what she calls a more defined jawline. However, the big problem with taping the mouth while sleeping is that our body often compensates for the air intake when our nostrils are blocked for some reason.
Physician Kami Hoss, a dentist and author from San Diego, said so Face those who sleep with their mouths open for many years can grow longer, with buck teeth and even a crooked smile.