I can't chew, my mouth is dry, my face is sagging, and I want to solve various problems of patients.
I have specialized in periodontal disease for many years, but 10 years ago I started researching feeding and swallowing after receiving consultations from elderly patients about their inability to chew, swallow, and mushyness.
As people get older, many people have "oral dysfunction" that makes it difficult to eat and swallow. Healthy people train the muscles around the mouth by talking to people and chewing, but this muscle strength weakens with age, and it becomes difficult to close the mouth as well as chew, and mouth breathing increases instead of nasal breathing. This causes your mouth to become dry mouth, which interferes with swallowing.
When the biting force is weakened, the facial muscles weaken, the skin at the corners of the mouth and throat decreases, and the entire face looks older.
Muscle weakness around the mouth is serious even among modern children. A long time ago, children used to chew sulume for snacks, chew hard objects with their front teeth, and train their mouth muscles on a daily basis. Today's children prefer to eat soft foods such as hamburger steak and fried chicken, and when they do, they often drink from plastic bottles or straws, so there are many cases where they have problems such as weak muscles around the mouth, poor teeth alignment, and low saliva.
It is important to maintain the health of your mouth, that is, to train your chewing power. However, the method is not well known.
I'm also trying to figure out how I can train my chewing power.
Around that time, I came across a paper by Professor Anderson and others that had been published in an academic journal in the United States. According to this study, "saliva secretion increases when you chew on silicone material regularly rather than chewing without anything." This led to the development of a silicone block that can train chewing power and the muscles around the mouth.
My efforts were resonated with many people and were introduced in the local newspaper.