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Developing The face and the Airway Theodore R. Belfor, DDS 120 east 36 th street New York, N.Y. 10016 The Homeoblock Philosophy 21 st Century faces and airways are underdeveloped. Development is based on breathing, swallowing and chewing


  1. Developing The face and the Airway Theodore R. Belfor, DDS 120 east 36 th street New York, N.Y. 10016

  2. The Homeoblock Philosophy 21 st Century faces and airways are underdeveloped. Development is based on breathing, swallowing and chewing

  3. Polluted air, lack of breast feeding and soft refined diets contribute to facial and airway underdevelopment

  4. The Face and the Airway are Connected First the brain, the cranium and the basicranium (inferior region of the skull) develop in the womb. Next the face and the pharyngeal airway develop at the same time.

  5. The Airway Function in a Real Sense, as a Keystone of the Face Enlow, D.H.

  6. Our Faces Do Not Reach Their Full Potential For Growth We retain a 10% facial growth potential as adults Behrents, R.G.

  7. Weston Price a dentist of the 1950’s noted the great discrepancy in facial development between “civilized” and primitive cultures

  8. Identical Twin Sisters Separated at Birth Each with a Different Environment and Diet

  9. Weston Price Noted We are What We Eat. Current Research Teaches us We are How We Eat

  10. Study of Hyrax Monkeys Lieberman et al., 2004

  11. Two groups of growing animals ate a diet of apples carrots sweet potatoes Kale rabbit chow

  12. One group the food was lightly microwaved the other slightly desiccated. Microwaved group; magnitude of strains in chewing was half as much.

  13. The group that was fed microwaved food had about 10% less growth in many dimensions of the lower portion of the face.

  14. Our modern diet, which a full of sugar and soft refined foods, contributes to our underdeveloped twenty-first century faces.

  15. Neolithic man 10,000 BC vs Modern Man

  16. These differences in bone development are directly related to the force of chewing.

  17. The consistency of the food consumed by Neolithic man was that of beef jerky

  18. Forces of chewing in the second bicuspid and first molar regions

  19. Rotational Force

  20. Shearing force

  21. All these forces on bone produce changes in the bone. This is known as “ Mechanotransduction ”

  22. Let us view the changes in the face and the airway that we can generate by altering breathing swallowing and chewing with an intraoral night-time only dental appliance

  23. The Homeoblock ™

  24. We Can Change the Bone Around the Eyes

  25. Before After

  26. Improve The Lips and the Mouth by Increasing the Size of the Upper Jaw

  27. Before After

  28. Wider and more pronounced cheek bones

  29. Before After

  30. Higher Wider Cheekbones

  31. Before After

  32. Improve Facial Symmetry

  33. Before After

  34. Reduce Lines and Wrinkles

  35. Most Importantly The Airway Can Be Improved

  36. Improved Facial Symmetry and Improved Airway Symmetry

  37. What we can do for the airway

  38. Before Treatment

  39. After Treatment

  40. Before and After Using Virtual Endoscopy

  41. Before and After Nasal airway

  42. Before and After Nasal airway

  43. Improved Head Airway and Head Position

  44. Improved Airway Before and After Treatment

  45. Occlusal Balance and Harmony

  46. The following slides demonstrate the changes to the back and base of the tongue for a series of patients treated with appliance therapy. The changes are indicated in red.

  47. How Do We Get the Improvements to the Airway? • Contraction of the genioglossus muscle. • Creating more room for the tongue • Through light force signaling to the teeth and the periodontal ligament which stimulates growth and development through hormonal response which widens the jaw and improves the airflow • By improving facial symmetry which enhances autonomic nervous system tone and balance and reduces inflammation

  48. What can we achieve with appliance therapy? 1-Higher wider cheekbones. 2-Improved facial symmetry 3- Fuller upper lip 4- Improved nasal breathing 5- Reduced airway inflammation 6- Better tone at the base of the tongue. 7- Less tooth grinding 8. A better nights sleep

  49. Improved Base of the tongue

  50. Before After

  51. More symmetrical airway

  52. Before After

  53. Better nasal airway opening

  54. Before After

  55. Reduced inflammation

  56. The appliance has a particular advantage for folks that sleep on their stomach that cannot sleep on their back.

  57. For more detailed information, please go to my websites at: www.facialdevelopment.com www.nusmilefacelift.com

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