Family Wellness Center in Rockwell

Our Jaws Are Shrinking!

Your child’s face and jaw development determines everything from proper airway volume to the position and alignment of their teeth—even their facial beauty!

Proper breast feeding is vital to creating the environment for learning proper function, and from there, setting the stage for optimal development. Bottles, sippy cups, pacifiers, finger sucking are just a few items that have been working against our function and development for decades.

Furthermore, scientists have found that our modern lifestyles and processed diets have altered our gene expression, resulting in smaller jaws. This is a serious concern because it impacts our ability to breathe and sleep correctly, causing a multitude of other issues!

Does Your Child Have Any of These Signs?

Who Does It Affect?

A recent study found that up to 93% of kids have malocclusion (crooked teeth), which is a visual sign of the underdeveloped jaws that cause possible breathing issues.

In children, a dentist’s recognition of poor jaw or facial development (or other risk factors) early on may lead to a medical or other collaborative intervention to treat and/or prevent SRBD. Because these issues are often related to smaller jaws and mouth breathing, it’s critical to educate patients about the vital importance of nasal breathing. The sooner they can make the shift from mouth breathing to nasal breathing, the healthier they will become!

The O.A.S.I.S Wellness Center’s Integrative Solutions

When it comes to kids the treatments offered are preventative, pre-orthodontic strategies that look to support and correct proper jaw development, improve the development of the airway promoting nasal breathing and fixing—possibly avoiding—many health problems in their future. We treat the root causes of crooked teeth, often without the need for braces or tooth extraction.

The optimal age range for this therapy is typically from 3 to 12 years old, but this can transcend to even younger and older ages as needed, and our Integrative Solutions can also help adults. Treatment entails utilizing removable oral appliances for treatment periods that vary with age and case complexity. These appliances play a crucial role in directing natural growth and development, countering the negative impacts of contemporary lifestyles on our patient’s mouths, jaws, and airways.

At OASIS Wellness Center, we use advanced imaging and thorough diagnostics to formulate a detailed treatment plan customized to each patient.