Jaws The Story Of A Hidden Epidemic Free Download
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There is a serious hidden epidemic that the public health community is just discovering. Its most obvious symptom is the growing frequency of children with crooked teeth wearing braces. But it also includes snoring, jaws hanging open, frequent stuffy noses, attention and behavioral problems, unrecognized disturbed sleeping (sleep apnea), and a general decline of physical appearance.
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Paul,
In all the years that I have been involved with the dental and orthodontic profession I have been stunned by the lack of knowledge and understanding about the function of the human body - outside of the teeth and jaws.
Nowhere is this more obvious than in the realm of 'sleep disorders'.
If you would care to invest 2 minutes of your time and listen to the following interview you might rethink your position on OSA, polysomnography and your reference to disrupted sleep as being a 'disease'.
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Dr Barbara Phillips, a Pulmonologist, Head of Sleep Medicine at Kansas University and Editor in Chief of Chest Magazine - one of the bastions of Pulmonology - who was interviewed on the MD Channel makes no bones about the disarray of the medical profession when it comes to 'sleep'. She states that 'this has to change' and she is right. 45 years of blind adherence to night time intervention has brought very little benefit to the tens of millions of people who suffer fractionated sleep.
Is it not beyond bizarre that the two Gold Standards in so-called Sleep Medicine and Sleep Dentistry are in fact Breathing Devices? -
Neither CPAP nor OAT have anything to do with 'SLEEP' They both address Breathing - yet doctors and dentists, at large, know precious little about Breathing, its mechanics, dynamics, habits, compensations and payoffs.
MMA surgery addresses repositioning the jaws so that the patient can breathe better. This has nothing to do with 'sleep disorders'
The unthinking masses, both medical and dental, keep on referring to Sleep Disordered Breathing as though it is the process of Sleep that disorders Breathing - which is total nonsense - for were that the case nobody would ever sleep.
The 'sheeple' follow the dictates that currently exist and which simply do not work - save for the small number of people for whom the CPAP air splint is appropriate.
The 'Inconvenient Truth' is that the vast majority of 'sleep disorders' are in fact Breathing Disorders which interrupt sleep. These Breathing Disorders are created largely during the day, as a result of poor postural and nutritional habits, inappropriate stress responses, compensation for aberrant behavior patterns, and these compensations take place unnoticed when the person is awake. They compensate without realizing it.
However at night it is a different story. There are two solutions to not being able to breathe at night.
Wake up - partially or fully
Die.
If you are going to reference OSA and PSG as a means of supporting your orthodontic position then it might be an idea to become familiar with current, modern and alternative approaches to sleep disorders - much along the same lines as current, modern and alternative approaches to physically dragging teeth to an unstable position and forcing them to stay there - with no thought as to what the consequences of this action might be.
The body seeks balance and will compensate for any imbalance - be it forced or intuitive.
There's a silent epidemic in western civilization, and its right under our noses. Our jaws are getting smaller and our teeth crooked and crowded, creating not only aesthetic challenges but also difficulties with breathing. Ehrlich and Kahn propose simple adjustments that can alleviate this developing crisis. Illus.
There's a silent epidemic in western civilization, and it is right under our noses. Our jaws are getting smaller and our teeth crooked and crowded, creating not only aesthetic challenges but also difficulties with breathing. Modern orthodontics has persuaded us that braces and oral devices can correct these problems. While teeth can certainly be straightened, what about the underlying causes of this rapid shift in oral evolution and the health risks posed by obstructed airways?
Dr. Brian Palmer, who was my original inspiration and mentor in this areas, documented this finding as well. Kahn and Erlich also liberally cite Dr. Robert Corrucinni, an anthropologist who found that communities with soft diets had higher rates of malocclusion (see podcast interview with Dr. Corruccini). This highlights the importance of how and what we chew determines how our faces grow. These concepts also build on one of the basic tenants of modern dentistry proposed by my medical school anatomy professor, Dr. Melvin Moss, DDS, who proposed the functional matrix hypothesis, which states that facial bone growth is not only influenced by your genes, but also the forces around your jaws, including direction and intensity of muscle forces, as well air pockets surrounding the bones. They finish the introductory chapters with many convincing arguments that there is an epidemic of shrinking faces (and airways) in modern humans, and that there are strong associations with numerous chronic health conditions in the United States.
Jaws is not about an epidemic of shark attacks but about the epidemic of narrow jaws and everything that goes with it: insufficient room for the wisdom teeth, crowded teeth, weak chins, unattractive appearance, mouth breathing and poor posture. All this will be familiar to members of the Weston A. Price Foundation.
Kahn is right on in pointing out the epidemic and the unfortunate consequences of not having a wide enough jaw. And I am sure she is an innovative and effective orthodontist. She correctly notes that the epidemic of narrow jaws comes with the change from traditional food to the industrial diet. But she does the public a huge disservice in claiming that the reason this change was detrimental is because modern foods are soft while traditional foods are hard and gritty. The action of chewing on hard foods, she claims, is what gives us a wide jaw, prevents dental crowding and saves us from mouth breathing.
The selection pressures causing these changes as archaic Homo sapiens genomes evolved into modern Homo sapiens genomes over thousands of generations have been speculated on (Lieberman DE 2008) but not identified with any certainty. The original reduction in jaw size that occurred millions of years ago as hominins evolved from ape-like ancestors has resumed over bib85the last tens of generations, moving much too rapidly to be attributed to genetic evolution. Comparisons of Medieval and modern skulls demonstrate this dramatically, with tooth crowding considerably less frequent in the Middle Ages (Moore et al. 1968, Helm and Prydsö 1979, Luther 1993), and there has been rapid change in jaw morphology in that brief period (Goose 1981). With very bib85rare exceptions, hunter-gatherers had roomy jaws. Malocclusion and noneruption of third molars (wisdom teeth) and crowding of the tongue were close to nonexistent; preindustrial jaws were simply roomier than those of people exposed to modern lifestyles (e.g., Price 1939, Proffit 1975, Helm and Prydsö 1979, Gibson and Calcagno 1993, Luther 1993, Kaifu 1997, 2000, Evensen and Øgaard 2007, Rose and Roblee 2009, Lieberman DE 2013, Kahn and Ehrlich 2018). The jaw epidemic is therefore a recent phenomenon and temporal and geographic correlation strongly suggests that it can be traced to changes in environmental factors due to agriculture and industrialization, but exactly what those factors are and how they operate remain uncertain. Indeed, environmental influences on skeletal growth are largely ignored by the orthodontic profession, which often accepts jaw skeletal development as genetic in nature, although the teeth themselves are recognized as subject to environmental influences (Proffit 1978, Tulloch et al. 1998, 2004, Dolce et al. 2007, Siara-Olds et al. 2010, Ehsani et al. 2015).
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