Sleep Better Knowing Your Child Breathes Better

Signs & Symptoms

If you notice any of these red flag challenges in your child, they may be suffering from a lack of quality sleep at night.

Treatment Solutions for Pediatric Sleep Disorders

You may have felt like you’ve tried everything to help your child.

We can help.

Using a personalized, holistic approach, we listen to your concerns and get to truly know you and your child so we can develop a customized treatment plan. Your child will finally get the sleep they deserve — and you can rest easier, too.

We will provide you with treatment options customized to your child’s diagnosis.

Here are the treatment options we provide:

Orthotropics
Orthotropics focuses on correcting your child’s oral and head posture by guiding the growth of the facial bones and correcting the oral environment, creating more space for the teeth and tongue by natural expansion of the palate. In children, the goal is to provide space in the mouth for all teeth, including the third molars or wisdom teeth. This is achieved in three ways:

• Improvement of muscle tone
• Correction of facial posture
• Teaching correct swallowing patterns

Different removable oral appliances are used to help with this process.

Myofunctional Therapy
Myofunctional therapy is a specialized training method that exercises your child’s mouth and facial muscles to correct a deviated swallow. Therapy is customized based on age and oral health condition and is intended to teach your child to swallow correctly over time. Learning a healthier swallowing pattern should eventually lead to facial muscle strength and control, clearer speech, proper tooth positioning, and even more efficient digestion.

Frenectomy Treatment
A frenectomy, or frenectomy, is a simple surgical procedure to resolve a tongue-tie or lip-tie. Dr. Dassani releases the area of tissue so there is a better function in the mouth. This procedure allows the lip or tongue the proper range of motion required to adequately swallow, and latch at the breast or bottle.
This treatment can benefit both the mother and the child. Babies are known to experience easier nourishment, less flatulence and upset demeanor, better sleep at night, and healthy weight gain.

HEALTHYSTART® ORAL APPLIANCE
The HealthyStart® System is an oral appliance therapy that addresses the root causes of SDB by promoting the natural growth and development of the jaw and airway to optimize airflow and promote proper nasal breathing while straightening your child’s teeth. As these areas develop many of the symptoms of Sleep Disordered Breathing disappear.

HealthyStart® is a non-surgical, non-pharmaceutical, and non-invasive therapy. It is soft, comfortable, and worn at night (or as directed) to assist parents who struggle with children affected by Sleep-Related Breathing Disorder, a restricted airway, and crowded or crooked teeth. It not only addresses the root cause of Sleep Disorder Breathing but it also simultaneously straightens your child’s teeth without braces. Best of all, when treatment begins early, the perfect smiles that the HealthyStart® Appliance System creates are less likely to relapse!