Usa today and all street journal bestseller. You've heard the advice. If you want to live longer, eat healthy foods and exercise daily. But there's a third piece of the puzzle and it can add 10 to 15 years to your life. It's been right under your nose this whole time literally. Your mouth is the gateway to your body and is the most critical organ for improving your health, from childhood onward. Everything in the human life cycle is related to the mouth, fertility, childbirth, sleeping soundly, success in school, finding a mate, getting a job, psychological well-being, avoiding chronic or systemic disease and aging well. Your mouth is a window into the health of your body as a whole, from its microbiome to its structure, it impacts your physical and mental wellness in countless ways. Unfortunately, the mouth-body connection has been largely neglected by American medicine until now. If Your Mouth Could Talk is the result of over 20 years of firsthand experience and research by renowned orthodontist and dentofacial orthopedist, Dr. Kami Hoss. In this groundbreaking work, Dr. Hoss connects the dots between oral health and whole-body health, offering a roadmap to a longer, more successful future for you and your family. This isn't a book about brushing and flossing mdash;or any of the other standard advice you get from your.