Hormonal Balance and Your Mouth (Video)

Hello friends. Today I want to talk to you about the hormonal balance in your mouth. Now, why is that super important?

So hormones are little pathways. We all have them, men and women, we all have them, and they signal our body to do something. It’s like the traffic lights. They control the pace at which we do things and they’re very, very, very important. Now, how are they related to your body? Well, everything’s controlled by hormones. They’re signals, they’re messengers, they tell our bodies to do things.

And sometimes when we have problems with our hormones, it can cause havoc in our mouth. For example, you’ve probably always heard of this, which is pregnant women have this hormone called progesterone that tells them that they’re pregnant. Now, that hormone is a growth factor, meaning it tells the bacteria in your mouth to grow, grow, grow, grow, grow.

Normally, bacteria are dividing every 20 minutes. When this hormone is present, it tells your bacteria to grow every two. That is a reason why we find a lot of women with cavities and gum disease after pregnancy. So super critical to notate and also be very careful if you are pregnant that you’re going in for routine care regularly.

Now, the other hormones that we find that are problematic are going to be hormones that control bone density like estrogen and progesterone. Now, estrogen is very important. We find that sometimes when we’re going through the estrogen change or the progesterone, estrogen and also testosterone change, the bone density starts deteriorating over time. And in your mouth, your jaw is all made out of bone. So we really want to make sure that we’re looking at the bone strength in your mouth and really making sure that you are healthy.

Now, you might be wondering, “Well, hormones seem like it’s all about women. What about men?” Well, cortisol is a hormone, right? That’s a stress hormone. So we want to make sure that we’re controlling your breathing so that it doesn’t create all the stress in your body, which makes you grind your teeth, maybe chip a tooth and cause lots of other problems. So hormones are really integrated with the rest of your body as well as your mouth. Your mouth is connected to the rest of the body and it communicates via hormones. And so it’s very important that you are making sure that in each stage of your life you are checking your hormones and seeing if there’s any potential issues with your mouth. Science has proven that people who keep their teeth live an extra 10 years, and I’d like to have the same for you.