LIFT YOUR LOOK By Roger Price, Director of Professional Services, The Graduate School of Behavioral Health Sciences LOUPE AND This is not a scientific article or a research paper; it is neither a case review nor report on a clinical procedure. This article is the culmination of six decades of involvement in the health profession from a number of aspects, the last 20 years having been devoted to the relationship between Posture, Behavior, Breathing, Dentistry, Orthodontics and Sleep Disorders and establishing relationships, causal and consequential, which ultimately result in dysfunction in one form or another. I t is not possible to see what you don’t know or understand, and with all of us, what we see and understand is usually the outcome of what we have studied and have spent a large part of our lives doing. There are two components to every consultation: The symptoms attached to the patient, and the patient attached to the symptoms. Both require equal attention if the outcome is to be optimal, stable and result in a healthy balanced resolution. Fig. 1 posture, muscle imbalance, cranial distortion, birth trauma or simply genetics. (Fig. 1) Putting a set of perfectly symmetrical teeth into an asymmet-rical face can and will cause prob-lems somewhere down the line, in one way or another. The Five “Wh” Words With no two people being exactly the same (Figure 2), it is extremely difficult to apply set diag-nostic criteria to everyone. In real-ity, each case requires what amounts to be ‘detective-like’ ques-tioning before deciding on a course of action. This can follow a common path but is specific to each case. Find out: Symmetry It is rare to find a perfectly symmetrical face, as the balance of the face can be affected by many factors that can include poor Fig. 2 12 Summer 2019 JAOS
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