Airway Orthodontics
Focuses on correcting dental and jaw issues to improve breathing and overall health, addressing airway concerns.
What Exactly is
Airway Orthodontics
Airway Orthodontics, also known as Integrative Orthodontics, is a comprehensive approach that goes beyond traditional orthodontics by considering the entirety of your health, not just your teeth.
Emerging scientific research highlights that crooked teeth aren’t solely determined by genetics. Rather, they are often a result of our modern diets, lifestyles, and exposure to an industrialized environment. These factors trigger adaptive responses in our bodies, which can be influenced by genetic predispositions, explaining why family members may share similar dental issues. Misaligned jaws and crooked teeth are indicators of underlying problems that our bodies are striving to adapt to.
In the realm of Airway Orthodontics, we delve into assessing and addressing the negative alterations in facial development. By doing so, we aim to restore harmony and rectify deficiencies in facial growth and airway development. This holistic approach not only improves the overall balance of facial development but also optimizes teeth alignment.
Our practice is more than just straightening teeth; it’s about enhancing your overall well-being by focusing on the fundamental aspects of facial and airway development.
Discover how Airway Orthodontics can transform your oral health and overall quality of life.
Unlocking the Benefits of
Airway Orthodontics
Early Intervention
Early intervention in Airway Orthodontics is key to avoiding uneven facial growth, sleep issues, and crooked teeth. By initiating treatment at an early stage, we aim to restore airways, balance facial structural growth, and establish normal functional patterns. These issues aren’t confined to just oral health; they have a significant impact on the entire body and can even disrupt normal cognitive development.
Long-Term Solutions
Our approach goes beyond merely treating symptoms. We diligently seek out the underlying causes of your child’s issues and apply effective treatments. Insufficient airways often result in automatic alterations of head postures, which, in turn, impact overall body postures as they strive to maintain balance. The restoration of these postures to normalcy is contingent upon structural improvements in the airways. We achieve this without resorting to surgery, employing gentle orthodontic techniques to bring about enduring transformations.
Facial Growth
The shape of the face exerts a profound influence on our appearance, our teeth, and our breathing passages, both day and night. Through careful intervention, we can actively shape and influence facial growth right from the start. This proactive approach not only provides children with lifelong health and aesthetic benefits but can also be applied to adults seeking similar improvements.
Comprehensive Health Approach
Symptoms we treat
- Crooked teeth
- Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea
- Mouth Breathing
- Forward Head Posture
- Pseudo or misdiagnosed ADHD
- Orthodontic Relapse cases
- Abnormal facial growth/development
- Tongue Ties
- “I just don’t like my smile”
- TMJ issues not resolved with appliances
Consequences of NOT Treating
- ADHD like symptoms
- Increasing tooth crowding
- Scoliosis
- Chronic Pain issues
- Anxiety or Depression
- Abnormal facial growth and deformity
- Periodontal disease
- Loss of ability to chew correctly
- Increased pain of face, jaw or neck
- Poor nasal breathing
- Asthma
Why Choose Us Over Traditional Orthodontics
At our practice, we believe that a great smile is just the beginning of orthodontic treatment. Beyond achieving that stunning smile, we prioritize understanding that orthodontic care can and should offer you or your child the best chance at a long, healthy, and pain-free life.
Our approach involves a meticulous and thorough assessment of your or your child’s anatomy, breathing, physiology, and neurology. This comprehensive evaluation is essential for crafting the most effective treatment plans. Unlike traditional orthodontics that often focus solely on straightening teeth and enhancing smiles, our approach recognizes the need for skeletal adjustments that are frequently overlooked in conventional treatments.
We go beyond cosmetics, addressing proper breathing, posture improvement, spinal alignment, neurological balance, and muscle function—crucial elements for ensuring overall well-being and optimal brain function.
For
Adults
Adults may assume that their orthodontic options are limited because their facial growth has ceased.
You might even think that certain corrections you desire are no longer achievable. Whether you’ve previously undergone orthodontic treatment and experienced relapse or were dissatisfied with the results, our practice has developed techniques that utilize gentle forces to stimulate bone growth and address issues with facial bones and airways, regardless of the patient’s age.
This approach not only enhances facial aesthetics but also bestows adults with a dazzling smile.
If you’ve lost your retainers after previous treatment, leading to some tooth shifting, our practice can evaluate your smile for straightforward solutions that address cosmetic and hygiene concerns.
For
Children
Orthodontics with a focus on correcting impaired breathing plays a vital role in treating children who snore or suffer from apnea, and it can also prevent these issues in at-risk children.
Studies indicate that 70% of snoring children have Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA).
Unfortunately, children with OSA are often misdiagnosed with ADHD and prescribed medication when their issues stem from disrupted and inadequate sleep.
Our practice specializes in evaluating the need to intercept abnormal growth patterns resulting from disturbed breathing, including mouth breathing.
Due to the ongoing growth in children, correcting deficient skeletal development is more achievable and effective, guiding them to grow optimally. Our treatment approach provides children with the best opportunity for ideal balance, posture, internal wellness, and unhindered cognitive development as early as possible.
