The Impact of Mouth Breathing on Your Face

Don’t scroll. If you breathe through your mouth a lot, this might literally change your face.

Mouth breathing isn’t just a backup plan for your nose. When you do it all the time,

your tongue drops from the roof of your mouth, which can narrow your upper jaw and

make your lower face look longer over time. And it gets worse. Mouth breathing

dries your airway, which actually makes your nose even more congested, so you keep mouth

breathing, and the cycle repeats. If you do this at night, you might wake up

tired, have trouble focusing in school, or even get misdiagnosed with ADHD-like symptoms

because your sleep quality drops. Rapid mouth breathing can also push your body into more fight-or-flight