Mouth Breathing and Low Tongue Posture Mouth breathing and low tongue posture (tongue sits in your lower jaw) are the beginning habits to sub-optimal eating, drinking, facial development, teeth alignment, breathing and sleep. If you’d like to take a deep dive into how breathing affects your overall health, especially the development of your facial bones,…
DetailsThis is the good in our world. Way to go scientific community around the world to make this happen in record time. As a pregnant dentist and now nursing mom/dentist working through the Pandemic, Dr. Allyson Drew had tears of happiness to have vaccine protection for her family, herself, her patients and her community. #drewdental…
DetailsThe tongue is a muscle. As with any muscle, it can be trained and strengthened. Open mouth posture is unhealthy not just for the formation of your facial bones, but also for your health. Drs Drew go over proper swallow with their patients and teach them where their tongue should be during a swallow and…
DetailsSugar! This helps explain why cavities are more prevalent in our modern-day, industrialized civilizations. • More sugar also means softer foods. • Soft foods mean you don’t chew as much. • When kids don’t chew they don’t get the benefit of optimal jaw growth. • Without nice wide jaws, our teeth don’t have space to…
DetailsEat your way to a healthier smile. Eating food is more fun than going to the dentist so please read this: Omegas are shown to decrease periodontal disease: “ To date, the treatment of periodontitis has primarily involved mechanical cleaning and local antibiotic application. Thus, a dietary therapy, if effective, might be a less expensive…
DetailsWe swallow 2x/minute during the day and 1x/minute at night. Has your dentist educated you on proper swallow? The tongue helps shape your jaws and keep your teeth straight, and now this recently published literature shows how your swallow affects your brain. A cool paper recently published looked at brain activation during tongue elevation swallowing…
DetailsIt is the subtle changes that make a big impact. Using conservative composite bonding, Dr. Drew was able to enhance this patients smile in a single visit. Using our @solea CO2 laser we removed the old bonding with no shots, no anesthetic, no pain. With our in-office Zoom tooth whitening, we were able to get…
DetailsDrs Drew attended a virtual course with the leading ENT and orthodontists from the USA, Singapore, Brazil, Hong Kong, and Egypt last night. Dr. Sorough Zaghi, ENT, Sleep Surgeon and founder of thebreatheinstitute.com really drove home how posterior tongue tie is one cause of mouth breathing and underdevelopment of the midface. See the image to…
DetailsZoom interview with Dr. Steven Park, ENT and author of Sleep Interrupted Last night we had an amazing Zoom interview with Dr. Steven Park, ENT, and author of Sleep Interrupted, as part of the Airway, Sleep, and Pediatric Pathway Study Group, with airway-centric dentists from around the world. Dr. Park also has a great podcast,…
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