You are probably budgeting for your child’s future college tuition, but completely ignoring the predictable medical bill growing inside their mouth. Most parents view the dentist as a repair shop, only booking an appointment when a tooth visibly rots or a child wakes up crying.…
You are probably overlooking a moving problem in your childs mouth right now. Most parents wait for their child to cry a lot at night or for their cheek to get swollen before taking them to a dentist. By then it’s too late, for a…
We have normalized a structural failure in pediatric health. When parents see their child’s adult teeth coming in crooked, they immediately assume it is an inherited rite of passage and start saving for braces. Crooked teeth are not a genetic inevitability. They are a glaring…
Speech therapy is a waste of time and money if your childs tongue can’t physically reach the roof of their mouth. You have probably sat in a pediatricians office, worried about your childs words or messy eating. They might have told you that your child…
A toddler sucking their thumb is widely viewed as a harmless milestone of self-soothing. If you are managing a child’s early health markers, you have likely been told by well-meaning relatives that they will simply grow out of it when they are ready. This passive…
Have you noticed your child sleeping with their mouth open at night? While it may seem harmless, open mouth sleeping can sometimes indicate an underlying issue with breathing. Many parents assume it is just a habit, but persistent open mouth sleeping may affect a child’s…
Most parents think about the jaw when it comes to teeth.. The jaw does a lot more than just hold teeth in place. The way the jaw grows affects how a child breathes, sleeps and eats. It even shapes how the face develops, which is…
We heavily medicate children for attention deficits while ignoring the exact mechanism their brains use to build focus. A staggering number of kids sitting in resource rooms with learning delay diagnoses are not neurologically impaired — they are just profoundly, chronically exhausted. You cannot diagnose…
Braces are not inevitable. Most parents treat them that way — a rite of passage somewhere around age twelve — but crooked teeth are largely the result of conditions that form years earlier and, in many cases, could have been interrupted. The uncomfortable truth is…
Most parents worry about sugar and cavities.. Very few parents think to check if their child is breathing correctly and that can really change the shape of their childs face. Mouth breathing in children is a deal. It is something that affects their body and…