Albany Dental

Baby Led Weaning

albanden — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:23:10 +0000

Last June 2012 at Dr. John Mew’s Growth Guidance Symposium in London and there was a speaker there who spoke on

“Baby Led Weaning”.

Her name was Gil Rapley and she is a public health nurse who wrote a book on the topic. The concept of feeding a baby purreed foods is questioned. Instead they should be fed whole foods that they can put into their mouths themselves and chew, even before they have teeth . When the baby is taught to chew at an early age, their body makes the enzymes in their mouth to break down the foods. Another key to proper growth and development is not WHAT the baby eats but HOW they eat it.

Also, their jaws will develop better due to the function. If their jaws develop their airways are affected positively. Food for thought. If you go onto You Tube and type in Baby Led Weaning you will see babies, as soon as they can sit up, chewing everything from bananas, chicken legs, and broccoli. I had heard this concept in Brazil at a Myofunctional Conference from a speaker from Peru in 2009.

It makes total sense to me.

Joy Moeller Beverly Hills, California at Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy

albanden — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:17:20 +0000

All viruses, including influenza and the common cold, that can cause breathing problems have essential membrane proteins that are rich in the amino acid, proline, adjacent to hydrophilic amino acids.

The viruses can be given a haircut preventing them from invading host cells if you have an enzyme which is capable of digesting proline-rich proteins. Our work over many years led to a blend of gingers that has a very efficient, highly specific enzyme that is able to digest these proline peptide groups.

The caveman evolved with an immune system gene that specifically recognized proline-rich proteins that protected them against viral and bacterial infections once their immune system was turned on by the first infection. Over 30% of the Australian population and for some national groups closer to 100% of the population have inherited this caveman gene (HLA DQ2 or DQ8). If they restricted their diet to what the caveman ate, they would be a very healthy group of people.

Unfortunately many of them are eating foods with a significant concentration of proline-rich proteins such as milk and plant-based foods such as wheat, soy, onions, and drinking wine, whisky, beer and coffee. Once the gene is turned on in-utero, or by infections, vaccinations or stress, and the people continue to consume these proline-rich proteins their immune systems become hypersensitized.

Mothers’ milk, baby formulas, and food given to babies on weaning with the gen switched-on are now able to cause their immune systems to become hypersensitized and the cytokine flux can turn on other genes that the baby has inherited. The right nutrition during the weaning period is crucial for laying down bone, tendon and ligament. The above babies with the hypersensitized immune systems run the risk of failing to take up calcium, iron, folate and other essential nutrients interfering with the babies’ bone structures.

In addition, the food intolerance and food allergies can build up mucous in the throat which interferes with breathing and an unhealthy gut must surely interfere with breathing. Pollens are proline-rich and cause an allergic reaction including asthma for those people with the gene for recognizing these proteins.

Our work suggests it is wise to use the ginger blend in the preparation of the food and drinks to break down the proline-rich proteins for all people to gain maximum nutrition and especially for the people with the HLA DQ2 or DQ8 gene to stop the immune system being hypersensitized.

The proline-rich proteins can also be digested by taking the ginger as a daily supplement.

Contact Albany Dental 32645698

for more information or to buy Digest Easy Biohawk

Is it Sleep Apnoea

albanden — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:54:29 +0000

Sleep Disordered Breathing or Breathing Disordered Sleep?

Treatment for Breathing disordered Sleep is multidisciplinary and not any ONE therapy or oral device or brand of thing is the answer.

You have to eliminate the reasons.

Dr David Stephenson has been helping sufferers for over 12 years

First:> can you breathe adequately through your nose. Y or N?

If there is any nasal restriction or obstruction , it is either soft tissue or bony. If it is bony, see an ENT and have an operation to straighten septum and reduce bony turbinate’s get yourself a physical nasal airway that gives enough airflow. If it is soft tissue, you are reacting to something in the environment either in the air or in your diet.

You can have soft tissue surgery of the mucosa /polyps in nose but unless you address the underlying immune reaction, then tissue will grow back. Have allergy testing or at least get a Food Detective kit ( google Food Detective can be issued by dentists and doctors ) and do a screen of 46 food groups.

The immune cells in the nose and throat register proteins coming into the body. If they screen a protein as a foreign body, the immune system builds IgA antibodies. Eventually with chronic repeated exposure the antibodies cause thickening of the mucosa in the nose and throat, production of mucous and heightened histamine response and sensitivity . this is different from an immune allergy such as peanut allergy or coeliac disease

The most common suspect proteins come in pollens ( seeds ), grains ( seeds ) , nuts ( seeds ) and animal protein and some bacteria and fungus/mould/mildew and some viruses.

eg: jasmine, wattle, wheat, oats, egg white, pasta, gluten, cow milk, peanuts, cashew, some shell fish, flu virus, triple antigen immunisation ( dead virus /bacteria), grain fed meat.

All of these substances have one thing in common. They contain proteins that have a lot of proline next to a water soluble amino acids. The human body does not have an enzyme that breaks down proline.

Prof Cliff Hawkins UQ (Organic Chemistry ) developed a natural derived enzyme that breaks down proline

www.biohawk.com.au

Cows , pigs, chickens and horses dont break it down easily either. Proline is not well absorbed by the intestines of these animals so they don’t do as well on grain as you would think. Excess proline gets stored in the fat tissue of the animal., just as in humans.

Take the enzyme and your nose will dry up , stops post nasal drip, catarrh, phlegm etc. But you have to diminish the exposure as well of course.

Then If you just can’t breathe through your nose and you are an oral breather day or night, you will have problems. If you open your mouth to breathe you will change your blood chemistry and your system will have to start placing compensatory mechanisms to get the red blood cells to let go the oxygen into your tissues and your brain. If you have been like this for most of your life you have not grown your maxilla wide enough because your tongue never pushed up and forward when you swallowed.

If kids react to proteins in the environment or diet, they will start having mucousy nasal airway and start to become a moth breather. Then they won’t develop a proper swallow and will end up with a narrow backward maxilla and need orthodontics by teens and have disordered breathing when they are an adult.

You have until the maxilla fuses to the cranium to fix the problem

by age 8-10y, 12y at the very latest.

The maxilla forms the sides of the nasal airway and the floor of the nose and the lower rim of the orbits of the eye. Once the cheekbones ( zygoma ) harden you cant easily widen this system. If you have a narrow maxilla arch of teeth. The lower teeth fit up inside this arch so it will be even narrower. Measure the distance between your first big back teeth (the molars ) across your tongue.

I bet it is less than 36mm. that’s the room your tongue has to fit in. It needs an over 40mm gap because your tongue is probably over 40mm wide at rest. ( By the way, DONT rush out and have a wedge cut out of your tongue !! ). So if you oral breathe when asleep, the game is all about getting a dedicated oral airway as the last resort.

Dentists know that obese people have huge tongues. The tongue has fat deposits. Doctors talk about weight loss to reduce risk of sleep apnoea. That’s because fat pads under the back of the lower jaw / top of neck push the tongue up and back. But also your tongue will get smaller / therefore fit better in the floor of your mouth.

At the back of the tongue, the airway is a sideways slit. You only have to increase the slits thickness front to back a bit and you have doubled/ tripled your airway. There is a threshold of weight loss that only you can find that will do the trick.

So get rid of tonsils, reduce weight, thin out the mucosa w the Biohawk enzyme. spray your throat with a surfactant that makes the tissue tauter and slipprier, And wear a mandibular advancement device that gets your tongue out of your throat. Hopefully this device allows you to still keep your lips closed and encourage nasal breathing. Then there is the mechanics of snoring to consider.

Snoring, snorting, gasping and making any rhythmic noise is a sign but also a real threat . Not all snorers have sleep apnoea but all sleep apnoeics tend to snore. Snoring is apparently a huge disruptive element in relationship breakdown because someone isn’t getting restful sleep and both are tired. Snoring is a forceful repetitive vibration that can shake the carotid arteries in the neck. These can thin out and the wall can split and cause clot formation as the vessel wall bleeds and heals and shakes clots and plaques loose.

Clots end up in your brain. Stroke and heart attack are the major risk outcomes of untreated sleep apnoea. A personal family member age ~50y had a cerebral ischaemic event for just this reason Snoring is due to turbulence and proximity of tissues /narrowness of airway. Oral devices work by moving the tongue down and forward away from the soft palate.

There are about > 50 designs. No ONE device works for everyone.

The dental professional must be trained properly It is not appropriate to just issue Somnomeds because they cost the most or MDSAs because they are cheaper. Ideally the oral device brings the jaw down and forward into a normal speech position whilst balancing the TMJs.

The device should prevent clenching when swallowing and allowing lip closure for nasal breathing. But if you have to breathe through your mouth, you dont want to crowd the tongue or obstruct the mouth openingwith the actual device. That is why it must be individually designed.

People think snorers have their mouth open.

But you can snore through your nose and you can snore deep in your throat.

An oral device also tenses the muscles just under your chin that hold the bone in your neck that holds the larynx. When you swallow , these muscles contract and pull the bone up and forward to allow the larynx to get out of the way and for the food to pass back behind down the lower throat/ lower airway and into the esophagus. If the muscles under the chin are tensed to start with the larynx hangs up and forwards out of the lower throat and opens the lower airway.

So if you have cpap and you cant stand it because the pressure is so high > get a correct oral device and your airway will be easier behind your tongue and in your lower throat and you can turn the pressure down. If you are a nasal breather with a cpap, get an oral device that allows lip closure three last comments

1 Because mouth breathing dries out your mouth, when you do finally go to swallow, you will jam your teeth together and try to build up enough moisture to complete the reflex. During this time you will be quiet ( hurrah !! ) but also NOT BE BREATHING! This swallow can take over half a minute. ( and you will crack your dentistry )

2 The weight of your guts when you are on your back pushes the diaphragm up into the chest, shortening the chest volume. Inspiration/ In breath is SUCTION . The diaphragm sucks back against the guts to draw in air. So if you lose weight your diaphragm can do this easier. If you tilt your torso up or keep off your back you will breathe easier. Easier inspiration means LESS TURBULENCE and less noise. So forget the tennis balls and the bed partner jabbing you and get a lateral tilt pillow from www.u-sleepwell.com.au. Doesn’t cost much and easy to use/wash and doesn’t cause problem for the other person or pay the money and get a tilt bed from a company like Niagra.

3 Blood chemistry : are you ready?! Ok so here goes… Carbon Dioxide is breathed out by all living animals. The body cleverly uses this “waste” product as a reverse regulator. The trigger to breathe OUT is regulated by carbon dioxide. It controls the pH of the blood which must remain within pH 7.35 and 7.45 at all times, or you will be in hospital. Carbon dioxide dissolved in blood is an ACID.

Cells die at pH 7.8 and pH 6.8. The body will do anything to compensate or sacrifice non essential processes to make sure the blood cycles between 7.35 at the breathe out event and 7.45 at the breathe in event. Red blood cells have haemoglobin that grabs oxygen at pH 7.45 and lets it go at pH 7.35. There is a switch in your brain stem that does this and is set by long behaviour and feedback.

So a nasal breather will have a switch that allows the carbon dioxide to build up MORE before breathing out. Thus the blood EASILY drops with the acid CO2 to pH 7.35 and you breathe out through your nose and you breathe 10-12 breathes a minute.

HEALTHY NORMAL .EFFICIENT EFFECTIVE BREATHING.

But an oral breather with sleep disordered breathing labours to suck in air and recruits skeletal chest muscles to help and switches on their stress fright/fight/flight nervous system and they breathe faster and / or with more volume airflow so they VENT OFF the carbon dioxide QUICKER than it can build up so the blood isnt going to pH 7.35 easily.

The body starts to have red blood cells that don’t let go the oxygen and the oxygen availability to the brain DROPS.

This recruits the back up survival responses OPEN YOUR MOUTH

WAKE UP INTO LIGHTER SLEEP

BREATHE DEEPER BREATHE FASTER

than 10-12/min Okay as a short term survival mechanism but still no good in the long run so next DUMP IN ACID BUFFER

> the kidneys produce pyruvic acid that drops the pH of the blood enough to allow the red blood cells LET GO the oxygen

Unfortunately the waste product of this buffer is LACTIC ACID build up in your body so you wake feeling WHACKED and tired.

Sure, you might hit the pillow and be asleep and not wake until morning But the LACK of deep restful /recovery /waste removal and repair / stage 3 SLEEP STAGE during the autopilot parasympathetic mode of sleep when your brain is supposed to be producing neurotransitters like serotonin and growth hormone means you don’t have the garbage trucks and fix it men working long enough to even deal with the body problems from YESTERDAY let alone the last 20 years. So You wake feeling tired, then faitgued and tired , then feel aged and tired well before your time should be up. Next , you slip into sick and tired.

Why

Breathing Disordered Sleep drives cardiac dysfunction, ( increased or erratic blood pressure ) , reflux ( driven by the gasping and deceased chest pressure when you breath out and stop breathing ) thyroid issues ( from the constant signaling by the nervous system in stress response ) and last but not least not enough time to produce neurotransmitters like serotonin

Lack of serotonin is called clinical depression. Depression is treated with Serotonin Re=uptake Inhibitors ( anti-depressants ). These make the little bit of serotonin hang around longer.

So

Its like this you can survive 3 weeks without food

3 days without water

3 minutes without air

You spend a 1/3 of your life asleep.

Its no wonder a lot of people have poor health

The simple answer Cpap does not deliver more oxygen.  

It just ( hopefully ) gets you breathing 10-12breathes/min through your nose with ENOUGh air flow to keep the blood doing what it needs to do.   

The pressure is needed to blow past the nasal obstruction, blow open the back of the tongue  and inflate the floppy lower throat airway so it wont suck shut on inspiration.   

Alchohol makes everything floppier   

That’s why cpap works

So Fix your nose,

lose some weight,

shut your mouth and

do a Breathe Well breathing course   www.breathewell.com.au

In the meantime use the cpap with an oral device designed for you by someone who knows what they are doing.

Please call

Dr David Stephenson BDSc Hons ( Qld )

1983 Member of the Aust Dental Assoc

American Academy Craniofacial Pain AustralAsian

Sleep Academy

Dental Care Network

drdavid@smiledentist.com.au

Non Extraction Orthodontics

albanden — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:42:13 +0000

Research has shown that over 90% of all orthodontic cases relapse unless they have permanent retention or the patient corrects the original cause of the crooked teeth. So why do some children develop crooked teeth and some children develop straight teeth? For normal growth and development the growing child needs to breathe through the nose, have the lips together at rest and have the tongue sitting in the roof of the mouth. When the tongue rests in the roof of the mouth the teeth erupt around the tongue forming a normal shape and sized jaw. When this happens the teeth will erupt into a nice curved arch. Those children who breathe through the mouth or have the lips apart at rest will not have the tongue in the roof of the mouth. All of these children will have an underdeveloped upper jaw. It will not be big enough for all of the teeth and when the adult teeth erupt they will be crooked or out of alignment.

Establishing Nasal Breathing

Why do children breathe through the nose or have a poor lip seal? For most children mouth breathing is a habit which can be broken. This pattern usually starts very early in life. All new born children breathe through the nose with a lip seal. Children who are breast fed are less likely to develop mouth breathing patterns. The thrust of the tongue forwards to suckle at the breast is a strong driving force to develop the upper jaw. Allergies and air-borne particles can cause an allergic reaction and the child learns to breathe through the mouth. Once a mouth breathing pattern is established it becomes a habit and it is a habit that can be changed. There are many reasons to establish nasal breathing in a growing child apart from the benefit of having a better chance of having straight teeth. The teeth are a part of the body and the body in many ways acts as a single system. In order to have straight teeth and well aligned jaws then we need a straight well aligned cranium or head. The cranium sits on top of the spine which is supported by the shoulders and the pelvis. If the shoulders and the pelvis are not level the head will not be level. In order to have a level pelvis we need good support from the feet. Growing children need to stand and sit up straight. The better the child’s posture the better the head (cranium) balances on top of the spine. If the head (cranium) is not well supported and balanced there will be distortions in the head (cranium). The cranium consists of 47 different bones including the upper and lower jaw bones. The upper jaw alone consists of four separate bones. These all fit together like a jig-saw puzzle. If any of these bones are distorted all of the bones will be distorted. The more distorted the cranial bones the more irregular the teeth.

STARTLING FACT & THE LINK WITH TEETH

Three out of every four children between the ages of 5 and 12 have crooked teeth. If treatment is ignored, delayed or done inappropriately these children will develop into adults who suffer from Postural and Breathing disorders.If the child receives no treatment for crowded teeth they develop moderate to severe postural, breathing, sleeping, behavioral, mouth, teeth and jaw issues in later life. The primary cause, poor breathing, should have been corrected while they were still young.We must no longer ignore the major effects that poor posture and breathing mechanics have on the entire body and our overall health and well-being

Peaceful, Healthy, Better Sleep

albanden — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:25:52 +0000

Your dentist may be the last person you’d think of to ask for help with snoring. If you are one of the many who for years have had to suffer all the bad effects of snoring or sleeping next to someone who snores, then your dentist may be able to help. Just imagine what it would be like to experience and enjoy uninterrupted, deep, rejuvenating sleep. To awaken fully refreshed and to look forward to your new day. Now, with the latest developments in sleep disorder techniques, your dentist can provide a clever but simple solution. You will notice that people who snore or who sometimes stop breathing while they sleep, lack energy and look tired and unhappy. They may have to take short naps during the day or just fall asleep even when they are driving. They may have rapid mood swings, memory loss and other unwanted changes that become apparent over time. The design of your throat unfortunately is not ideal because it is not held open or supported by bone structure. As you sleep, the muscles and soft tissue in your throat and mouth relax and this may cause a partial or even a complete blockage of your airway. When your reflexes attempt to get enough air into your lungs for your heart, your brain and your body to function correctly, the speed of the air in the narrower space has to increase and this makes the soft tissues in your throat and mouth vibrate. As a consequence, you start to snore. Sometimes your dentist can solve this by making you a small splint, something like a double mouthguard, to wear at night. It will either stop your jaw falling back or bring it slightly forward to increase your airway space and so eliminate or at least reduce your snoring. It may be as simple as that. Ask your dentist if you need more information.