If you’re going to affect a change in another human being which lasts then you’re going to want to make that change at a young age. Not only are children more malleable mentally at that age, they’re also still developing physically. We have a whole different set of teeth before the ones we’ve got now; our skulls only fully form once we reach a certain age and of course we grow until we’re almost 21. Children are still forming and as such, any damage they take in this formative period is likely to stay with them for their whole lives. In the same respect that an emotional trauma suffered at a young age until they die, a physical alteration will too and it can be very tricky to iron these out later in life.
Asthma is a respiratory disorder which affects all sorts of people but is specifically common among children. It’s a condition which we’re seeing more and more of and scientists have been looking into other ways in which it affects kids. They know the symptoms and the causes but they wanted to find out whether there’s any lasting damage caused by the condition and as it turns out there is and not necessarily where you’d expect it.
The study focussed on dental arch morphology which is a scientific way of saying the shape of the arch of our teeth, when you consider them all together. For children their jaws and teeth are still forming and as such this area is susceptible to damaging alteration. They found that those who’d suffered from asthma for a long period of time had a different way of breathing and that different way of breathing directly affected how their dental arch would form. Whether this will cause any actual damage to the kids remains to be seen but it’s a worrying finding for the parents of kids with asthma.
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