When choosing any dental treatment for your child, it’s important to know how that treatment will help your child’s condition as well as what benefits it will have in the long term. With orthotropics, those benefits are many and extend beyond just your child’s oral health. Orthotropics is the treatment of abnormal and/or asymmetrical facial and oral structures while they’re still developing. The treatment includes custom-designed appliances that help ensure proper growth, spacing, and alignment of all of your child’s facial structures, which offers a wide variety of benefits of your child. (more…)
Protecting Gum Health In 3 Easy Steps
Protecting your gum health may be a new idea to you, particularly if you’ve always thought it was all about protecting your teeth. Or, this may be something that’s been on your radar for quite a while, though you were never really sure what to do about ensuring you’re taking the right steps to get there. What may surprise you is that there are really just three very simple steps to achieve if your goal is to keep your entire smile nice and healthy.
Oral Cancer: Things To Cut Out
When given the option between protecting yourself against oral cancer or instead, doing things to promote it, chances are good you’d prefer to avoid it! Unfortunately, you may not be sure what you should be doing to keep it from happening. Some culprits that you should avoid are more obvious than others. Let’s quickly soar through some very common risk factors that you should most certainly cut out to keep your oral health in check.
Facial Symmetry: More than Just Appearance
When it comes to children’s oral and facial growth, most parents have at least some idea of the importance of alignment. Proper alignment and symmetry are necessary for your child’s teeth and jaws to work properly, and to avoid serious bite issues in the future. However, symmetry and alignment are vital for much more than just bite function. For example, asymmetrical facial structures can lead to improper growth of nasal and airway structures, which can lead to uneven facial appearance as well as increased risks of breathing and sleep disorders. (more…)
Can Orthotropics Prevent Sleep Apnea for Children?
Prevention is the main focus of all children’s dentistry treatments. Besides checkups and cleanings to ensure a healthy smile, that prevention most often occurs in the form of treatments such as dental sealants that keep teeth safe from cavity-causing bacteria. Sometimes, however, it may require more involved treatment. For instance, orthotropics treatment prevents sleep apnea and a wide range of other chronic issues by ensuring the proper growth and spacing of your child’s facial structures. (more…)
Sealants: Better Safe Than Sorry!
When you’re providing your child with the best pediatric dental care you possibly can, that means a lot of things! At home, it means remaining focused on getting through effective brushing and flossing. With us, it means coming in for cleanings and checkups on a regular basis (we suggest every six months). This also means taking us up on our recommendation for additional preventive treatments like dental sealants (and fluoride helps, too) to keep kids’ teeth extremely safe! Why sealants, you ask?
Comparing Orthotropics to Orthodontics
In many ways, orthotropics and orthodontics share several similarities. Both treatment plans focus on improving oral health development through careful realignment, and both are often prescribed to help children avoid more serious oral health concerns in the future. However, deciding on the best treatment option for your child depends on the specific concerns your child faces. For instance, while orthodontic treatment can correct growth and development issues related to malocclusion (a crooked bite), orthotropics may be necessary to correct issues with the development of a child’s facial structures. (more…)
3 Problems TMJ Treatment Can Address
You know that when you see our team for TMJ treatment that it is going to help you lessen the effects of TMJ disorder and, hopefully, eliminate the symptoms. It will also guide you toward a smile that’s headed for excellent health, rather than one headed for jaw joints that may become significantly damaged due to long-term stress. As for the details of what our treatment will actually help you say goodbye to? Well, let’s talk about a few very frustrating and uncomfortable symptoms that will subside.
A Few Signs that Your Child Might Need Orthotropics
There are many reasons why children’s dentistry should begin as early as possible. For instance, good habits develop early, and getting used to visiting the dentist can have lifelong benefits in the form of excellent oral health and beautiful, confident smiles. Regular dental visits also allow the dentist to ensure that your child’s oral and facial structures are developing properly and in good health. Otherwise, early intervention or correction (such as orthotropic treatment) may be necessary to avoid serious complications in the future. (more…)
Your Bad Breath: What’s Happening, How To Stop It?
There are many potential causes for your bad breath. Did you know that it’s not always just about the foods that you’re eating? If you’ve cut out smelly foods that you have assumed that were the culprits and have discovered that the unpleasant odor still lingers (or overpowers!), then you may have already recognized this detail. So, what’s going on and what are you supposed to do to resolve the problem? We have answers, so you can get back to a smile that’s super fresh.