My job is done--I warned you.BlackSpinner wrote:No, it is a symptom of future problems. The cause in NOT the orthodontistry but the NEED for it - small mouth/ jaw / throat.sylvie wrote: Me too. At my last Somnodent adjustment appointment, my sleep dentist asked me if I had had teeth pulled and braces when I was a child. I had. He also said this is/has been frequently the cause of sleep apnea! There's a girl on the Internet who has made it her personal crusade to warn parents against doing this to their child. She was horribly maimed from this, she says, and goes into great detail on a number of videos of how it pushed back her jaw, thus limiting her airway and causing sleep apnea, disfigured her upper palete, and influenced a small mouth (which I also have), among other things. In fact, she can't even sit normally and breathe properly. I understand she has recently undergone a $60K surgery to correct at least some of these things. I haven't followed back up on her story in a while. As an aside, it took me a while to get over the anger of this having been done to me, even though I don't know if this is the sole reason why I have sleep apnea.
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Avoid tooth extractions (including wisdom teeth) & train-track braces; find a functional orthodontist at http://iaortho.org/.
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I think some orthodontics have been done in such a way that sleep apnea becomes more likely or more severe.sylvie wrote:
My job is done--I warned you.
There should be an objective to make structural changes that increase, or at the very least do not decrease, the size of the airway.
In the past many orthodontists went about their business without a thought of the effect on the airway. Still today I am sure some work like this.
T.C.