We’ve covered some of the more predictable issues with obsessive mask-wearing (see also, compliance). Rebreathing your CO2. Sucking up dust, germs, crap (and viruses ) your lungs just exhaled. Hypoxia! But we’ve missed this angle. “Dentist Warns Too Much Mask-Wearing Can Lead to Harmful ‘Mask Mouth.’”
Related: Top Health Officials in Europe: “Masks Aren’t Helpful in Beating COVID-19”
Mask wearing is causing recycling all that nasty stuff through your mouth, over and over, and it can’t get out.
“We’re seeing inflammation in people’s gums that have been healthy forever, and cavities in people who have never had them before. About 50% of our patients are being impacted by this, [so] we decided to name it ‘mask mouth’ — after ‘meth mouth.” …
“Gum disease — or periodontal disease — will eventually lead to strokes and an increased risk of heart attacks. People tend to breathe through their mouth instead of through their nose while wearing a mask. The mouth breathing is causing the dry.
Just another reason to take them off (or not put them on, as we like to say) but if that’s not enough, watch this. It’s under two minutes and wow, home run!
Hat tip, Red State.
The Featured image is NOT the Dentist in the title. It is the YouTuber in that hilarious video. Our apologies if there was any confusion.
