Ep. #628 | What Your Mouth and Sinuses Can Tell us About Your Health with Dr Laura Caylor

By Jenn Pike | November 2, 2026

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What if the key to better sleep, fewer cavities, and even hormonal balance starts in your mouth? This week I’m sitting down with Dr. Laura Caylor, a functional and airway-focused dentist based in Chilliwack, BC, who turned her own breastfeeding struggles and her children’s sleep issues into a mission to understand the whole-body connections we were never taught about in conventional dentistry.

In this episode we cover:

  • How becoming a mother led Dr. Laura from conventional dentistry into airway and tongue-tie work
  • The breastfeeding struggles that went undiagnosed 
  • Palate expansion in children: what it is, why it matters, and the results she saw in her own daughter within a month
  • Why “common doesn’t mean normal” when it comes to crowding in kids’ baby teeth
  • Tongue ties, oral ties, and why just releasing a tie isn’t enough if you haven’t addressed the structure
  • How mouth breathing shifts your oral microbiome, increases cavity risk, and changes your cravings
  • The connection between perimenopause, declining hormones, and sleep-disordered breathing (including why the “skinny fit female” goes under the radar for sleep apnea)
  • How adding xylitol to saline broke her son’s chronic congestion cycle
  • Why spraying a steroid into a congested nose is basically useless (and what to do first)
  • Myofunctional therapy tools: tongue clicks, MyoSpots, and the Myo-Munchie
  • The milkshake-through-a-straw analogy for understanding airway collapse
  • How your dentist is actually part of your prevention team 

Let’s dive in!

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