When we talk about dental health to our children, the information we impart is limited to what they can understand and put into practice. Your dentist who is trained to care on a wide variety of dental health concerns have been dealing with incorrect jaw development that causes crooked teeth among children.
As your child grows, the muscles that surround the face have a great impact on the proper development of the jaw and overall health. Most noticeably, it can affect the facial shape and the manner your child speaks. But what if your child has poor oral habits (incorrect myofunctional habits) that have led to crowded teeth and underdeveloped jaws?
When teeth are out of alignment, the jaw muscles need to work harder by compensating the jaw joints to move out of its normal position to a position that allows the teeth to meet when biting. But this put pressure on the jaw joints and can further damage your teeth.
If you think your child has these symptoms, it is worth discussing your concerns to your dentist. At MRC Clinic/Green Apple Dental Clinic, the dentist will examine jaw movement, take X-rays of your mouth and jaw, and evaluate your dental history for signs that is causing the incorrect dental alignment.
According to Dr. Gamaliel Urbi, DMD, DIBO, the major reason why children develop crooked teeth is not mainly because of heredity, but of poor oral habits that include mouth breathing, tongue thrusting, reverse swallowing and thumb sucking.
Corrective treatment ranges from wearing Myobrace appliances to kid-friendly therapies for re-training the oral muscles. Myobrace is a removable dental appliance that is worn for just 1-2 hours at daytime and while sleeping at night. Once you decided to enroll your child at MRC Clinic/Green Apple Dental Clinic, your child will immediately get an evaluation, wear customized/removable Myobraces and be scheduled for the next appointment that will include therapies for correcting the poor oral habits of your child.
It could take some minor adjustments but could mean a world of difference in your child’s overall health, confidence and perfect smile.
You may want to read this article : Straighten Your Child’s Teeth Without Braces
So far, my son’s teeth are all ok pa. I hope we won’t have teeth alignment.
That’s why as early as 1 year and half our pedia advice to brush our toddler’s teeth kahit di pa complete to prevent bad breath and also checking them kahit okay pa. para daw maagapan habang maaga pa.
Misaligned jaws and wrong bites are big concerns kasi it could lead to TMJ pain. It’s nice to have problems like these detected and corrected very early.
Oooh, I didn’t know this! But in case my son’s permanent teeth misalign, I’m glad there’s an easy solution. 😉
I am keeping a bookmark on this especially when my daughter starts to lose her baby teeth. We will need this in the future.
By any chance, do they have dentists with experience in handling kids with Down syndrome? Usually teeth alignment and growth for them are quite odd and I have been trying to source out a pedia-dentist. Hopefully at an affordable price as well. 🙂
I hope my son’s teeth will be good. I have crooked teeth so I needed a braces.
Improper alignment of teeth really affects one’s self-confidence. It’s really important to have this treated sooner than later so that a child grows up feeling good about himself with a ready smile for everyone.
I had my teeth corrected with braces before but this is the first time I’ve heard of this. 1 to 2 hours is not that bad.
This is very informative. I believe removable Myobraces is the good solution for improper alignment of teeth.
hmmnn.. I didn’t know about Myobraces before reading this post. Thanks for the info.
This is our problem with our eldest. We need to take him to the dentist soon.
Think we will need this in due time. My lil girl still thumbsucking 🙁
Glad that there’s an alternative to having braces! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Kianna’s teeth need fixing. She’s already a teen though but hopefully we get it fixed soon. I’ll keep a close watch on Jael’s teeth in case he would need this.
My permanent teeth has grown behind my milk teeth and due to this I’ve got crossbite as well as overbite..any remedy for it?