CASE STUDY Figure 9: Brenda’s Progress Questionnaire at 10 months. Figure 11: Preferred resting posture of Brenda’s mandible at 10 months. Figure 10: Left column: pre-treatment. Right column: 10 months. Figure 12 implant cases done without regard to airway and Impaired Mouth Syndrome. ᕦ Bone-building diet, which includes: a) Organic green smoothies: bioflavonoids and the best from the plant king-dom, b) Bone Broth made from stewed or slow-cooked chicken carcass, oxtail, spare ribs, shell fish & whole fish (scaled and gutted) from free-ranging sources, as Figures 7 and 8 show. Ten months later, Brenda returned for her first monitoring visit (she lives in another country) and reported that her lifelong nausea better from 10 to 1 on 0-10 scale, as well as achieving longer sleep by two hours, as shown in Figures 9. At 10 months, Brenda’s mandible was freed from entrapment by allowing maxillary growth and development as shown in Figure 10. For nay-sayers who still insist that palatal expanders in adults only results in buccal tipping, Figure 11 shows a close-up of Brenda’s posterior teeth. While being skeptical of new paradigm is healthy, speaking from ignorance is bad manners. Worse yet, it can shortchange suffering patients on break-throughs like Brenda's. A smart doctor speaks up only after getting fully informed or trained in Clini-cal Epigenetics first. Subjective Units of Distress Scale (SUDS) is a validated research tool. 24 Figure 12 shows Brenda’s symptom progress in 10 months. Note that there is a 90% improvement in outlier symptoms of lifelong nausea and gastropare-sis in 10 months. Brenda’s Impaired Mouth was a major factor in her Vagus dysfunction! The rest all show positive gains totaling 53%. The professional and emotional rewards alone are well-worth getting trained in Clinical Epigenet-ics and Whole Health Integration. It's time dentists evolve from restor-ing teeth to restoring Impaired Mouth by recognizing Impaired Mouth Syndrome and treat it with Clinical Epigenetics. The Law of Form and Function means Impaired Mouth inevitably leads to poorer health. Restoring Impaired Mouth can then positively impact whole body health through www.orthodontics.com Winter 2024 9
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