Before: overbite with weak chin,. migraines, and sleep issues.
After: non-surgical overbite correction, no weak chin, migraines, or sleep apnea
Significant improvements and understanding of what causes sleep apnea or sleep issues and jaw development issues occurred. Years ago, sleep apnea was thought to anatomical and as well as an overweight issue. This is where the CPAP and weight loss treatments began. Compliance is challenging with this and is not the answer to all sleep apnea. It is now known that there are other causative factors that lead to sleep apnea or poor sleep. Some issues are:
Overbites and Underbites: most are not aware that these misaligned bites can cause sleep apnea along with other issues such as poor facial profiles and facial asymmetry.
Mouth breathing, this is a serious culprit. If the mouth is open the airway can become more constricted as well cause the upper airway to collapse. In addition, to these factors, mouth breathing can and does lead to jaw development problems. These problems include but are not limited to underbites, overbites, open bites, and also speech and postural problems. Tongue ties and tongue thrusts are another issue leading to aberrant jaw development. When one breathes through their nose, the tongue can more easily go to the roof of the mouth and not fall back and block the airway when the mouth is open. Quite often, nasal surgeries fail as the mouth breathing or aberrant tongue posture is not addressed. It is critical that patients breath through their nose both day and night for proper health and jaw development too.
Myofunctional therapy is another area that pays attention to breathing dysfunction associated with tongue posture. Proper myofunctional therapy can help open the airway in many cases and also improve speech and breathing.
Benefits of Dr. Konig’s Nonsurgical Overbite and Underbite Correction:
Reversing short round faces: this often appears when the lower jaw is too far back and makes the nose appear too close to the chin. Correcting this profile issue allows
Porcelain veneers alone do not improve chin size or facial profiles: porcelain veneers do not correct bites. They are simply for individuals who do not have any bite issues and are wonderful in many cases. However, they cannot change profiles, correct TMJ pain, or change the facial features or asymmetry.
Small Chins– an overbite pushes the chin back which in turn makes the chin appear smaller. Correcting the bite with this physiologic or neuromuscular treatment allows the chin to appear larger by placing the retruded jaw in its healthy physiologic position eliminating jaw pain as well. With Dr. Konig’s bite management treatment, this can be done without orthognathic jaw surgery or years of braces.
Reducing Sleep Apnea Issues: since overbites push the jaw back, it closes part of the airway and also can push the tongue into airway as well. This is why some people feel as if their tongue is too big for their mouth.
Excellent Cosmetic Results: correcting the bite usually allows for significant
Before: overbite with weak chin,. migraines, and sleep issues.
improvement in the overall cosmetic results. Often improving airway, restoring proper facial profiles, and establishing more stable long term aligned bites.
Treatment can very often be completed with minimal grinding or no grinding of the teeth.
Elimination of TMJ Pain: realignment of the jaw to the correct physiologic position helps to eliminate or significantly improve the TMJ pain.
If you have questions regarding Houston TMJ Pain, Houston Nonsurgical Underbite or Overbite Correction, please feel free to contact our office, Ronald W. Konig DDS, FAGD, LVIF, FIAPA, 713-668-2289.