What is Sleep-Disordered Breathing (SDB)? Sleep Disordered Breathing (SDB) is a common medical disorder that is increasingly recognized in children – almost 30 million American children are living with SDB. SDB can range from frequent loud snoring to Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) a condition involving repeated episodes of partial or complete blockage of the airway during sleep. When a child’s breathing is disrupted during sleep, their growing bodies are deprived of the one thing they need most—oxygen. In response, some children become restless, irritable, and hyperactive, while others experience drowsiness, poor scholastic performance, bedwetting, chronic allergies, or any combination of the above. Additional Benefits for children Ortho-Tain® …show more content…
However, it is clear that helping children sleep through the night and breath through their nose only has a positive impact. We are very happy to report that not only do the children that are being treated see improvements but also the families of these children get back to a balanced home life. No more worrying about a bed wetting incident at a sleep over or club sporting event. No more worrying if their child will have a “good day” before committing to an event / activity. The children and families can get back to being kids and …show more content…
It is designed to feel like a pacifier that helps to familiarize the child with the process of wearing a device in their mouth every night. This initial device is typically worn anywhere from one to four months before moving on to the next step. Daytime wear and extended treatment time could be recommended depending on the child’s specific habits and their severity. Step 2: Ortho-Tain® for Kids During the second phase, a device specifically sized for each child is also worn at night. It works to gently guide the incoming permanent teeth into the appropriate places, correct jaw relations, and expand the arches to make room for the larger incoming adult teeth. This helps to eliminate and prevent any improper dentition. This device is worn for only about two to five months before the final phase of treatment begins. Step 3: Ortho-Tain® for Kids Once the child has at least four permanent teeth in the mouth, the third and final treatment begins with a device used to accommodate the incoming adult teeth. This is a vital stage in our treatment process because as the adult teeth are forming, the gum tissue fibers are beginning to anchor these teeth in the mouth. When using this third phase of treatment, the Perfect Start System ensures the adult teeth erupt into their proper position and the natural fiber bundles are able to form, therefore locking them into the correct alignment. This method works to prevent any new erupting
• Repositioning the teeth so that there is room for the molar to come through. This may be done with orthodontic appliances, such as braces.
In years past, orthodontic treatment involved painful, inconvenient, and unsightly metal and bracket braces that were glued to the surface of the teeth and bond by wires, which would progressively move teeth into a more healthy alignment. Advances in dental technologies, procedures, and products have transformed the industry. Today, more convenient and less painful clear aligners are used in place of the old fashioned braces.
This technique is implemented with the support of a titanium or gold bar that anchors a set of acrylic teeth in the decayed place. The bar is a fixed and can only be detached by a dentist. With the help of this advanced denture technique, we offer you with full fixed teeth in a day even though you don’t have enough bones for this denture treatment.
Many times, if a child is brought in early enough, we can tackle some or all of their developmental issues before determining if braces are needed. Before the application of braces, we like to use what we call Phase I treatment. Phase I treatment can consist of a variety of dentofacial orthopedic therapies in order to guide the growth of your child’s jaw. This can solve some bite issues, spatial issues, and more. To learn more about dentofacial orthopedics, please visit our page here.
Orthodontics Braces- An uncomfortable spacing, crooked teeth or an irregular bite can not only make you feel less confident about yourself, but it can also affect your oral and overall health. At Pannu Dental Care, our specialty is to design as well as apply orthodontic braces and devices that fit the individual needs and requirements of every patient. Whether you are experiencing bite alignment issues or have crowded teeth, our goal is to help our patients in every step of the way in terms of achieving the smiles they have always wanted in the most efficient, quick and comfortable way imaginable. Backed by a team of highly-qualified and skilled orthodontists and cutting-edge technology and orthodontic resources, we specialize
Sleep is essential to life; it is one of several components, including food and water, which keep the living alive. However, a significant percentage of the human population has considerable difficulty reaching and maintaining Stage IV within their sleeping patterns, the stage that allows the mind and body to fall into a deep and restorative sleep, otherwise known as REM sleep. At the core of this difficulty is a condition known as obstructive sleep apnea, a "serious, potentially life-threatening condition that is far more common than generally understood" (Sleep Apnea). Indeed, obstructive sleep apnea can be very dangerous if it is not properly detected and treated.
Obstructive sleep apnea. In this condition, a child's breathing stops and restarts in quick episodes. It can happen many times each hour. This interrupts sleep and can lead to bedwetting.
[abn] provides pediatric orthodontist services performed by our board-certified orthodontist, Dr. Gerald Wesley. He specializes in correcting teeth that are crooked, overlapping, protruding, crowded, or are spaced too far apart. Special treatments, such as braces, aligners, and retainers, may be required to correct and stabilize teeth.
It is the main cause of sleep disorders in children, and responsible for 75% of cases of sleep apnea. (3)
Correcting a deep overbite is a very common goal in orthodontics, therefore the majority of patients require a control of the vertical overlap during the retention phase. The vertical overbite can be maintained using a maxillary retainer with an anterior biteplate incorporated within it, so that when the bite starts to deepen, the base plate contacts the lower anterior teeth and prevents the bite deepening (Figure 2.9). The retainer should not separate the posterior teeth. The patient should not stop wearing his/her retainer, but he/she may wear it only at night, after stability in other regards has been achieved, because the vertical growth continues into the late teen (Proffit 2007). Growth pattern might be the most influential factor that
In patients whose initial malocclusion results from the pattern of the skeletal growth, the continuation of growth could be problematic, because the skeleton continues growing in the same pattern and the same direction, which cannot be altered by an orthodontic or orthopedic treatment. The transverse growth is completed first, followed by the anterior-posterior and the vertical growth, which means that, in the long-term, the anterior-posterior and the vertical growth are clinically more problematic than the transverse growth, for instance, a comprehensive orthodontic treatment is carried out as soon as the permanent teeth are in place, and the duration of such a type of treatment is typically 18-30 months. This means that the active treatment
The first and most researched sleep disorder is sleep apnea. Sleep apnea does not affect children as often as it effects adults, but it is still a rising concern. Sleep apnea occurs in about 2 per cent of children, mainly between the ages of one through eight. But it can also show up in older children and even infants. (Klein). Research says that young blacks are more at risk than young whites. (Fritz p 83). Children with sleep apnea briefly stop breathing many times during the night due to an obstruction in the respiratory tract. Most of the time it is related to enlarged tonsils and adenoids or to obesity. As the child will gasp for there breath during sleep, they awaken for a few moments to regain there normal breathing and then they immediately return back to sleep. Because the child will be awoken by this many times during the night, this cause sleep deprivation. (Common Sleep Problems AA). The physical symptoms of sleep apnea are excessive daytime sleepiness, snoring, restless sleep, heavy and irregular breathing, excessive perspiring during the night, bad dreams, sleeping with there mouth open, sleeps in strange positions, morning headaches, learning problems, excessive irritability, depression, changes in personality, difficulty
Sleep disorders alter ones sleep pattern and often results in the inability to either sleep or sleep soundly. They often cause you to feel restless, tired, fatigued, and irritable. It is estimated that nearly 75 percent of adult Americans experience sleep disorder symptoms at least a few nights per week. At the same time, sleep disturbances in some form are seen in as many as 25 to 30 percent of infants and children (“Sleep Disorders” 2013). Clearly a huge conundrum in the world, sleep disorders affect an inordinate amount of people. Millions of people suffer or have suffered from a sleep disorder at one point in their lives and if mistreated can impact organ systems functioning negatively. Physical disturbances, medical issues,
Finally, sleep is lost and never will be regained. During the first year of a baby’s life, parents, especially mothers, lose 700 or more hours of sleep. That is a lot. No wonder parents look like a walking zombie. When babies do sleep through the night, parents still wake up to check on them to make sure that they are comfortable and everything is all right. Unfortunately, babies aren’t the only cause for loss of sleep. Teenagers are to. They go out and stay
However, obstructive sleep apnea is just the opposite in which, it affects around two to four percent of kids’. The results of sleep