Hi, list.
I've been having many problems with alergic renitis, jaw tension ( for
speaking ans singing ) and back problems. In fact, I think I've had them all
my life and just started noticing them when I started singing.
I've gone through speech therapy and two surgeries in the nose for sept
deviation and they haven't solved my major concern ( and what my previous
singing teacher always refered to ): having a problem breathing through the
nose and vocal problems.
I've been wearing a mouth guard to sleep and that has helped a lot with the
tension, but I still have articulatory problems opening the mouth ( it
doesn't open evenly, and when I open it a little wider it 'compensates' to
the right ).
I've gone to some dentists but now I've found out one who is really
different. He says he studied in Germany and his technique is based on the
idea that most people with the problems I refered to above breathe through
their mouths. And that's what I said I do! That is generally due to short or
sparse breastfeeding, since our suction, chewing and swallowing mechanisms
are developed in that period of our lives ( before that the baby feeds on
amniotic liquid in the mother ) and is forced, due to a 'busy mouth', to
breathe in and out through the nose. Another match: I was breastfed for some
days only!
He said those mechanisms force the child, while been breastfed, to adjust
their spines and mouths appropriately and to develop the muscles in the face
so that the suction is successful and that has the 'side-effect' of
adjusting the jaw ( and the muscles related to it ) and the other muscles in
the neck around it properly. He also said that ear-nose-mouth specialists
attack only the outocome of that problem: when you breathe through the mouth
only, the air in the nose related cavities does not renovate and therefore
bacteria and fungi develop freely, what causes renitis. With antibiotics
doctors only kill those microorganisms but they don't solve the problem. If
you breathe through the nose you will be renewing the air in those cavities
continually, so you won't become allergic. Also, by breathing through the
mouth you're sending pollution and bacteria directly to your lungs which
lose their capacities. If you use those 'sprays' that doctors prescribe to
force your lungs to 'open', you will be forcing your lungs to have contact
direct with that 'garbage' it's trying to avoid.
The solution, and he said it's common sense in Germany, is a different kind
of brace in the mouth that forces you to articulate and swallow correctly,
besides forcing you to breathe through the nose.
Have you ever heard of that? What do you think?
Best regards,
Caio Rossi
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