Everything starts with a personalized and detailed consultation with Dr. Mindy.  You will complete a questionnaire to assess any sleep, breathing, TMJ, oral function, oral habit, pain, and other corresponding conditions.  We will then bring you in for a series of diagnostic photos, a Trios intraoral digital impression, and 3D CBCT imaging of your teeth, your jaws, your airway, and your TMJ.  Dr. Mindy and her staff will complete a clinical diagnostic workup, ask a few more questions, and have a conversation with you to gain a full picture of your needs.

Following diagnostics, Dr. Mindy will present to you her findings, along with a treatment plan specific to your needs, treatment timeline, and a realistic idea of what is possible with nonsurgical intervention.        

Modern diet and lifestyle has brought with it an epidemic of shrinking human jaws. With this has come altered growth of the lower half of the face surrounding the jaws, collapse of the airway behind the jaws, and compression of the temporomandibular joints (TMJ) associated with the jaws.

For more information, as it relates to specific conditions, and to help gain understanding of the integrated relationship between each of them, please refer to the sections of our Jaw & Facial Development menu.

TMJ Therapy

Homeoblock Appliance Therapy

Decades of research by brilliant anthropologists, dentists, physicians, and scientists has demonstrated the overwhelming shift in facial development and overall health since the Industrial Revolution, along with the health consequences that have come with it.

If you would like to learn more from some of the leading authorities in this area, here is a list of prominent professionals that have made a big impact in integrative airway, nutritional, sleep, and TMJ health:

• Dr. Robert Corruccini. Anthropologist, author of How Anthropology Informs the Orthodontic Diagnosis of Malocclusion’s Causes
• Dr. Weston Price, DDS. Dentist, 1930’s researcher, and author of Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
• Dr. Kevin Boyd, DDS. Pediatric Dentist, prominent researcher in evolutionary changes in human jaws. Featured in Our Skulls are Out-Evolving Us publication https://onezero.medium.com/our-skulls-are-out-evolving-us-and-that-could-mean-a-public-health-crisis-f950faed696
• Dr. Michael Gelb, DDS. World-renowned TMJ specialist, author of Gasp!: Airway Health – The Hidden Path to Wellness
• Dr. Christian Guilleminault, MD. Sleep medicine, pioneering researcher in the effects of airway compromise on sleep disordered breathing
• Dr. Stephen Park, MD. ENT, author of Sleep, Interrupted
• Dr. Sandra Kahn,DDS. Orthodontist, author of Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic, co-developer of GOPex (Good Oral Posture exercises).
• James Nestor. Investigative Journalist.  Author of Breath:  The New Science of a Lost Art

Photos courtesy of Dr. Weston Price, DDS. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.

Slides from Dr. Kevin Boyd, DDS, as featured in Our Skulls are Out-Evolving Us publication by Katherine Reynolds Lewis at https://onezero.medium.com/our-skulls-are-out-evolving-us-and-that-could-mean-a-public-health-crisis-f950faed696d