What is Airway-Focused Orthopedics and Orthodontics?
It is a foundation-first approach to developing proper jaw size in 3-dimensions, creating a functional nose, optimal space for the tongue, functional bite, and creating beautiful faces and airways.
You would never build a house on a weak or crooked foundation. Why would you straighten teeth on a weak, small or crooked foundation, otherwise known as small jaws?
AirSync is here to build or reconstruct the best airway with the best tools possible!
Don’t fixate on a specific tool! We have learned and trained in almost every airway modality of treatment with the preeminent educators in the world (Vivos, Homeoblock, AGGA, bioblocs, MARPEs, SFOT, clear aligners, MyoBrace, MyoMunchee and more). AirSync is determined to give you success and results in the most minimally invasive way possible.
Let’s get a comprehensive plan with the most effective tools to build your dream airway and sleep!
AirSync Orthodontics, Craniofacial Orthopedics, Growth Guidance
THE LITTLES, YOUNGER MIDDLES
If you could comfortably guide and optimize the growth of your child’s jaws (and at the same time optimize their breathing and quality of their sleep), why wouldn’t you?
If given the choice, would you wait until there is very little growth remaining or would you rather help your child grow, sleep, and thrive?
By 4 years of age, the upper jaw is 60% developed. By 6 years of age, the upper jaw is 80% and by 8 years, the jaw is 90% developed.
The time to treat children is much earlier than the world thinks.
Growth Guidance, Jaw/Airway Development, Foundational Orthodontics - utilized to develop or enhance the shape of the foundation for the teeth, create space for the tongue, create optimal upper airway space, and mitigate the risk of long-term TMJ and breathing-disordered sleep problems.
These techniques are gentle, they stimulate bone growth, build optimal jaws/airways/tongue space, optimize TMJ health, and allow for optimal spacing for teeth.
In conjunction with Oral Myofunctional Therapy and optimal breathing, the following create long-term stability of the teeth, jaws, airway, breathing, sleep, and quality of life.
MyoMunchee®
We are proud to incorporate the MyoMunchee® Bebe starting in late infancy and continuing through adulthood!
Fantastic for pacifier and/or thumb-/finger-sucking habits
Fantastic adjunct for all custom treatment to strengthen the jaw muscles and help the jaws grow
Invisalign® Littles - Clear aligners in a rapidly growing young child can create amazing 3-D development of the jaws, creating extensive palatal development and bone growth of bone jaws. And, it is COMFORTABLE!!! Children love it, parents love it.
Fixed and removable expansion appliances
Expanders with reverse pull facemasks - grow them jaws wider and forward
BioBlocs
Combinations of the above therapies
Bigger Middles, Teens, and Adults
Contemporary Orthopedic/Orthodontic Therapies - treatment options for teens and adults to optimize the airway, nasal breathing, tongue space, and tooth position
Skeletal Expansion, the MARPE - an insanely powerful tool to broaden the non-growing palate as well as the floor of the nose .
MARPEs enable 3D changes to the upper jaw and cranium
Not only do you get a wider jaw, you can move the jaw forward as well
Every bone that connects to the upper jaw (the maxilla) remodels
TMJs remodel
Orbits remodel
Posture and neck alignment improves
And clearly, nasal breathing and sleep improve
AirSync has been trained by the leaders in MARPE education - Dr. Audrey Yoon, Dr. Ilya Lipkin, Dr. Richard Ting, Dr. Marianna Evans, Dr. Todd Scheyer, Dr. James Roblee, and Dr. Won Moon, to name a few.
We use custom-built, 3D-printed MARPE appliances that allow for efficient and precise placement to facilitate successful outcomes.
We successfully have expanded male and female adults in their 70s WITHOUT the need for invasive surgical cuts in the OR.
We get the results successfully and minimally invasively, with no extra surgeon costs!
AirSync is proud to be able to do the placement and orthodontics all in one place.
The MARPE is so effective, that many patients who are on the path for jaw surgery choose to abandon their surgery due to the reduction/elimination of sleep apnea. Pretty darn cool!
Every patient, young and old, has been a raving fan!
The Homeoblock® + POD appliances®
Developed by Dr. Ted Belfor and featured in James Nestor’s book “Breath,” these novel appliances work with your body to facilitate the body to heal and regenerate itself.
Benefits: balances facial asymmetry, help align cranial bones, helps align cervical (neck) vertebrae, improves TMJ position and function, optimizes nasal breathing, and very importantly, it tones the muscles of the airway
This is not used as an expander; it used as a healing/optimizing appliance.
SFOT Invisalign® (Super Accelerated Invisalign®) - a combined approach that gives maximum ideal functional and esthetic outcomes, long-term stability, with greatly reduced treatment time (can be completed in as little as 6 months). This technique is a combination of minimally invasive periodontal surgery and Invisalign®, allowing tooth movements that are normally not possible because of a lack of bone. Utilizing the body’s natural response to trauma, one can manipulate and push the envelope of tooth movement, while growing and thickening bone and gums.
Combined Approaches - because not one modality treats every 3-dimensional mouth in every dimension.
Adult Palatal Expansion (MARPE/MSE), SFOT Invisalign®, Homeoblock, and more
Many times one treatment modality may not be enough to achieve all goals. We often combine techniques to customize and optimize the outcome for our patients.
Sometimes we must start with the joints, the asymmetries, or the neck before we get to expand.
“Superior doctors prevent the disease. Mediocre doctors treat the disease before evident. Inferior doctors treat the full-blown disease.”
-Huang Dee: Nai-Ching (2600 BC, First Chinese Medical Text)