As we know, sleep is really the bottom pillar of our health. So when it comes to dentistry and incorporating airway, what we’re noticing is that there’s a lot of oral contributions that contribute to sleep dysfunction or what we call sleep disordered breathing. So my goal is to always find what the root cause is.
So if you have high blood pressure, you’re not sleeping well, you’re waking up in the night, you know, what are the root causes to that? And a lot of those things are orally related. So what is your airway look like? So when I’m looking at someone for an airway analysis, what I’m looking at is their airway. Do we have certain anatomical things that we can change or adapt? When it comes to airway dentistry, what we’re doing is we’re doing a full comprehensive consultation.
It’s not just looking at what is your, you know, mouth and tongue look like. It’s what’s your entire airway from the nose all the way down to the back of the throat. We’re looking at the shape of your arch.
So we know that the roof of the mouth is the floor of the nose. So if you have different kind of situations in there that actually make those airways smaller, we can do expansion, we can do a different kind of analysis. And then there’s other things.
There’s mouth taping, which is becoming a little bit more kind of mainstream and heard about. So we’re using all these things in conjunction to actually create a individualized way to help your airway. And there’s certain therapies that we can do to actually expand the airway, have you have a better breathing and health function, and then you can go on and live a fuller and healthier life.
