Laura Torrado DDS, FAGD

02/05/2026

Your mouth is more connected to your overall health than you might think. 🦷

At Dental Wellness Airway: Laura Torrado DDS, FAGD, we understand this important connection. Your oral health can impact your entire body's wellness, and we're here to help you understand how.

When you take care of your mouth, you're taking care of yourself. We believe in honest conversations about your health and providing clear guidance every step of the way.

Our team is committed to helping you feel confident about your oral health journey. We listen, we care, and we're here to support you.

What questions do you have about how your oral health connects to your overall wellness? ✨

01/15/2026

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Your jaw controls your pelvis here’s how:

When your jaw clenches, your pelvis compensates.

The cascade:
1. Jaw imbalance pulls your head forward
2. Your neck muscles tighten to stabilize
3. Your spine compensates by shifting
4. Your pelvis tilts to maintain balance
5. Chronic lower back pain, hip tightness, SI joint dysfunction appears

But here’s what your PT, chiropractor, and massage therapist didn’t tell you:

Treating the pelvis won’t fix this.

Treating the jaw won’t fix this either.

Because the jaw clenching? It’s a symptom too.

The jaw tension creates the cascade you just saw all the way down to your pelvis and feet. And until you fix THAT, your body will keep creating these compensation patterns no matter how many treatments you do.

The missing link is sensory input. That tension starts at the top but is reinforced from the ground up.

Fix the signal from your feet, and your jaw and pelvis finally stop compensating. Therapeutic Insoles are designed to do exactly that.

Tap the link in bio to reset the chain where it begins, your feet!

01/04/2026

01/04/2026

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Gum makers have claimed, for decades, chewing is good for your mental health. They’re kind of on to something.

11/20/2025

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11/08/2025

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Every part of your jaw system is connected to your posture in ways most people never realize.

When your jaw position shifts, your head and shoulders follow. The body instantly compensates to keep your eyes level, which leads to neck tension, shoulder elevation, and forward head posture.

When your tongue function is off, it directly affects the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) through the way it presses on the teeth and palate.

Poor tongue posture destabilizes the jaw, forcing the surrounding muscles to tighten and pull unevenly.

Your teeth and tongue work together to guide jaw position. When that relationship is off balance, the TMJ shifts, and the head posture changes with it.

This creates a ripple effect down the neck and spine, altering the body’s center of gravity.

And when you have a crossbite, that imbalance becomes structural. One side of the jaw moves differently than the other, creating asymmetry that the rest of the body must correct for from the jaw to the pelvis.

Here is the truth: if you have any one of these issues, your posture is already compensating. If you have two, three, or all four, your body is living in constant adaptation.

This is not about standing straighter or stretching more. It is about understanding that your bite, your tongue, and your jaw mechanics are dictating how your entire body aligns.

That is the real reason you cannot fix your posture until you fix your jaw.

In addition to this, a Functional Activator is a great tool that can be used to improve neck posture through tongue positioning.

Jaw and body connection, Link in bio ☝️




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10/23/2025

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From retainers to toothbrushes, nearly every part of modern dentistry and orthodontics involves—and is enhanced by—plastic, Zoë Schlanger reports. But the potential harm to patient health is still poorly understood. https://theatln.tc/R99uYJYc

Despite hand-wringing over microplastics from other sources, “when it comes to oral health, we welcome plastic intentionally, and sometimes permanently, directly in our mouths,” Schlanger continues.

“A robust body of research links chemical compounds that leak out of plastic to hormone disruption, developmental abnormalities, and cancer, but the effect of the actual fragments of plastic accumulating in our tissues and organs is less clear,” Schlanger writes. A growing body of statements and studies coming out of the dental and orthodontic professions ask if plastic may be harming patients, Schlanger writes. But “so far, few if any papers have looked at the issue in humans,” and many studies are still in their preliminary stages.

“The only way to get us out of the dental-plastic loop,” Schlanger continues, “will be to develop different materials.”

🎨: The Atlantic. Sources: Science Photo Library / Getty; Olena Sakhnenko / Getty.

10/02/2025

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Your teeth are mechanically connected to your pituitary gland.

Each tooth sends force directly to the crista galli, a bony ridge 3mm from where your hormones are produced.

When these forces are uneven, they physically distort the area around your master gland.

When your bite is off by even 1mm, those forces don’t cancel out.

They TWIST.

They create a torque pattern that pulls on the crista galli.

That ridge anchors the membrane separating your brain. When it’s pulled, your pituitary gets compressed.

Here’s the breakdown:

Stage 1: Tongue Drops
Tongue loses contact with the palate. The upper jaw narrows and collapses.

Stage 2: Teeth Overload
Without tongue support, teeth absorb all force. They shift, crowd, or grind.

Stage 3: Cranial Twist
Uneven force travels up to the crista galli. Membranes twist. Skull compensates.

Stage 4: Pituitary Stress
Crista galli distortion compresses the pituitary. Hormone signals scramble. Energy crashes.

The mouth is the gateway to the body. When the gateway is misaligned, everything downstream suffers. Fix thongue posture with a Functional Activator, restore the hormones, reclaim your energy.

It starts with where you place your tongue.

Your tongue position matters more than any supplement you’re taking. The question is: are you ready to address the foundation instead of medicating the symptoms?

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09/30/2025

Have you had a filling at some point in your life? Today’s blog goes over what a filling does, and when you should get it replaced.