How to Build a Beautiful Jaw - For You and Your Kids | Dr. Hilary Fritsch

Realfoodology

Courtney Swan

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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258: My conversation with Dr. Hilary Fritsch changed the way I think about my oral health. She’s an airway dentist, which means she specializes in the link between breathing and dentistry. She explains that there is a wrong way to breathe, and it can totally ruin your facial structure. Hilary is also a pro at helping babies and small children develop a healthy, beautiful jaw, and is calling out the things that interfere with that. You'll get practical tips to help yourself and your kids build a healthy jawline and get better sleep - it's literally a win-win. Topics Discussed: → Why sleep apnea is a jaw disease → How mouth breathing is ruining your face → Tips for improving your jawline → How kids can develop healthy jaws → The benefits of a strong tongue → The difference between an airway dentist and a traditional dentist Sponsored By: → Pacha | Go to https://station.page/pacha/contest/realfoodology and enter to win the ultimate self-care goody basket, curated especially for Realfoodology listeners! → MASA Chips | Go to https://MASAChips.com/Realfoodology and use code Realfoodology for 25% off your first order. → CURED Nutrition | Right now, CURED Nutrition is offering my listeners an exclusive 20% off Serenity Gummies with a monthly subscription. Just head to https://www.curednutrition.com/REALFOODOLOGY and use the code REALFOODOLOGY at checkout. → JASPR | Get $400 off with code REALFOODOLOGY and link is https://www.jaspr.co/realfoodology. Timestamps: → 00:00 - Introduction → 00:37 - Sleep Apnea → 02:39 - Diagnosing Sleep Apnea in Women → 04:10 - Palatial Widening → 06:40 - Breastfeeding + Jaw Development → 09:45 - Mouth Breathing and Jaw Line → 13:40 - Breathing Through Your Nose → 15:39 - Fixing Your Jawline as an Adult → 17:13 - Vivos Appliance → 18:31 - Treating TMJ, Clenching and Grinding → 20:44 - Airway Dentistry: An Emerging Field → 25:47 - Link Between Jaw and Teeth → 29:29 - Myofunctional Therapy: Tools + Benefits → 31:27 - Mouth Tape + Nasal Dilators → 33:53 - Understanding Tongue Tie → 36:58 - Tools and Tips for Kids’ Jaw Development → 44:39 - Mouth Breathing + Cavities → 45:47 - Can Kids Mouth Tape? → 47:45 - Signs Your Kids Are Mouth Breathing → 49:28 - When To Start Treatment for Kids → 52:37 - Starting Your Own Jaw Journey → 54:05 - Sleep Apnea is a Jaw Disease → 55:56 - How to Find the Right Dentist → 57:30 - Where to Find Hilary Check Out Dr. Hilary Fritsch: → Instagram → Saddle Peak Dental Check Out Courtney: → LEAVE US A VOICE MESSAGE → Check Out My new FREE Grocery Guide! → @realfoodology → www.realfoodology.com → My Immune Supplement by 2x4 → Air Dr Air Purifier → AquaTru Water Filter → EWG Tap Water Database Produced By: Drake Peterson

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0:00.0	on today's episode of the Real Foodology podcast.
0:04.0	My big goal is to just awaken the mothers because I think that's where this change is going to come from.
0:09.7	As moms are like, I need to help this kid, I feel in my heart that something's wrong.
0:14.1	They shouldn't be wetting the bed this late.
0:15.5	They shouldn't be waking up this many times the night.
0:17.5	They shouldn't be grinding their teeth.
0:19.5	And then they start to put the pieces together and find help. And as they demand more of that kind of care for their kids, the
0:25.8	dentistry will start to catch on and medicine will start to catch on. And we can hopefully really
0:30.5	change what we're doing wrong because we're doing a lot wrong right now.
0:38.6	Hillary, thank you so much for coming on the Real Foodology podcast. I'm so happy to be here
0:42.1	with you. Thanks for having me. This is so exciting. This is so exciting. I was actually telling
0:46.0	you right before we started recording that the timing of this is kind of funny because I've been
0:51.4	having a lot of sleep issues the last couple years, and I just recently had a sleep test
0:55.9	done. And the doctor told me that I was like borderline sleep apnea. He didn't actually
1:00.4	diagnose me with it, but he was like, you're on the cusp of it and could probably be having
1:05.3	some symptoms because you're so close to having it. So I want to actually dive into that first
1:09.8	because I'm sure maybe
1:11.5	some of my listeners are also going, okay, well, I didn't even know that somebody could have
1:15.8	sleep apnea that didn't have like a weight issue. Yeah. Because my thinking was always,
1:20.7	oh, you're super, if somebody is carrying a lot of extra weight on them, then of course they would
1:25.5	have sleep apnea because they have all this weight on their organs.
1:27.9	But I didn't realize that it could also be other things.
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