![]() If you find yourself in the night on your belly, notice how your face and jaw are distorted as you pick your head out of your drool puddle and shift position. When you go to bed, have the intent to sleep on your back and/or side. When you combine the gentle pressure with the fact that we are unconscious while asleep, sleeping on the face is an excellent ‘one, two punch’ to cause crooked teeth. This risk is made even worse if you habitually put your arm or something firm under your head while sleeping. So, sleeping on the face puts this gentle, consistent pressure on the teeth which can cause them to shift. If you look at the structure of the human skull, the teeth do stick out a bit. Dr Hal Huggins shared this fact with us prior to his death in 2014. Sleeping on your face is a very real way to cause teeth to become crooked. There are two main ways we cause crooked teeth. But most issues with crooked teeth are from the teeth crowding and overlapping inwardly, toward the tongue. Sure, there are examples of teeth being crooked outwardly in the mouth (most common with children and excessive thumb sucking). It’s helpful to grasp that when teeth go crooked, it’s due to them crowding one another on the inside of the dental arch. To answer this question, we simply have to look at how we put gentle, regular pressure on our teeth. ![]() One article details the common problem with having wisdom teeth removed and the other details the 5 main myths our culture believes around wisdom teeth. We recently wrote two articles on this often misunderstood subject of wisdom teeth. Research shows that allowing your wisdom teeth to come into the mouth rather than having them removed does NOT cause other teeth to become crowded. But before we detail them, we have to address what isn’t the cause of crooked teeth…Ĭontrary to popular culture, it’s not wisdom teeth. We have identified two common culprits that cause teeth to shift over time. It’s the gentle, slow, constant pressure that causes teeth to shift their position. If the pressure is too strong or fast, then the tooth can become loose or get knocked out (think hockey for a painful visual). Teeth shift by gentle, persistent pressure. If we think about how braces, the universal ‘solution’ to straighten teeth, do their job, understanding what causes teeth to move becomes really clear. All this will head us ultimately toward how to fix crooked teeth without braces. Let’s take a look at some common reasons why teeth become crooked and more importantly what we can do to stop causing them to misalign. Whether our motive is for the visual impact of a beautiful smile (guys, read handsome) or the logistic fact that crooked teeth are tougher to keep clean, having straight teeth is a universal desire.īut as the years pass, many of us find that our teeth are moving and NOT in the direction of that ideal, straight teeth smile. It’s the unspoken sign of health, happiness and friendship across the planet. We all want to have a bright, healthy smile, right?
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