Mouth Breathing : The Cause of Crooked Teeth  
A stimulating address by John Flutter, a dentist with a difference who explained his approach to children’s orthodontic problems, no extractions, no braces just teaching nasal breathing. “All children who grow up as habitual mouth breathers will have crooked teeth”
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Shut Your Mouth & Save Your Life
This was the title of a book written by George Catlin in 1870, he was renown
as a great traveller and artist. His travels took him throughout north & south America studying & painting the indigenous Indian populations. During this period he came to the conclusion that the health and good facial features of the native Indians was in large part due to their nose breathing and not allowing their children to mouth breathe. Two hundred years later the same concept is being revived (see above) Below a brief extract from G Caplin's Book:
"When I have seen a poor Indian woman in .the wilderness, lowering her infant from the
breast, and pressing its lips together as it falls asleep fix its cradle in the open air, and afterwards
looked into the Indian  multitude  for  the  results  of such  a practice, I  have said to  myself, '
glorious education ! Such a Mother deserves to be the nurse of Emperors.' And when I have seen the careful, tender mothers in civilized life, covering the faces of their infants sleeping in
overheated rooms, with their little mouths open and gasping for breath and afterwards looked
into the multitude, I have been struck with the evident evil and lasting results of this incipient stage of education; and have been more forcibly struck; and shocked, when I have looked into
the Bills of Mortality, which I believe to be so frightfully swelled by the results of this. habit,
thus contracted, and practised in contravention to Nature's design.
    There is no animal in nature, excepting Man, that sleeps with the mouth open; and with
mankind, I believe the habit, which is not natural, is generally confined to civilized
communities, where he is nurtured and raised amidst enervating luxuries and unnatural warmth,
where the habit is easily contracted, but carried and practised with great danger to life in
different latitudes and different climates; and, in sudden changes of temperature, even in his
own house." from "SHUT YOUR MOUTH"  - George Catlin   - 1870