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Children’s Oral Health and Open Mouth Breathing

February is National Children’s Dental Health Month and in honor of that I thought we would discuss mouth breathing. Mouth breathing may not seem to be a cause for concern and has been quite normalized in our modern culture. Almost every Disney movie I recall shows characters sleeping with their mouths wide open, snoring and drool coming out of their mouth. Have you ever noticed with your own child that they breathe through their mouth even without a cold or stuffy nose? If you have, you are not alone.