Dental and Orthodontics
Open Bite
No history of thumb sucking
Tongue Thrust
Everybody is born with a tongue thrust. This is the anterior thrusting of your tongue when you swallow. Prolonged thrusting will produce skeletal deformities such as open bites and lack of transverse development resulting in posterior cross bites. Dentally, teeth and the supporting bone (alveolus) will continue to develop vertically (closing the open bite) until they meet and antagonist whether it be teeth, tongue or thumb!
Another source of and open bite could be from mouth breathing as a result of large tonsils, large adnoids, nasal poleps, allergies, etc.
Although you may have stopped sucking your tongue some time ago, the tongue thrust might not have gone away. Both invisalign or braces can help correct the bite, unless the tongue thrust goes away (the etiology for the open bite), there is good chance of it relapsing.
-The tongue is the most powerful mucsle in the body for its size.
-Tongue thrusts are a result of brain patterning from the central nervous system.
-The average human being swallows between 2400-2500 time a day.
_ Muscles will dictate how bones grow. When it comes to a contest of muscles and bones, muscles always win!
My advise would be to seek a board eligible or board certified ORHTODONTIST. These professionals are trained to know and understand the gowth and developement of the facial complex.
Tongue Thrust
Everybody is born with a tongue thrust. This is the anterior thrusting of your tongue when you swallow. Prolonged thrusting will produce skeletal deformities such as open bites and lack of transverse development resulting in posterior cross bites. Dentally, teeth and the supporting bone (alveolus) will continue to develop vertically (closing the open bite) until they meet and antagonist whether it be teeth, tongue or thumb!
Another source of and open bite could be from mouth breathing as a result of large tonsils, large adnoids, nasal poleps, allergies, etc.
Although you may have stopped sucking your tongue some time ago, the tongue thrust might not have gone away. Both invisalign or braces can help correct the bite, unless the tongue thrust goes away (the etiology for the open bite), there is good chance of it relapsing.
-The tongue is the most powerful mucsle in the body for its size.
-Tongue thrusts are a result of brain patterning from the central nervous system.
-The average human being swallows between 2400-2500 time a day.
_ Muscles will dictate how bones grow. When it comes to a contest of muscles and bones, muscles always win!
My advise would be to seek a board eligible or board certified ORHTODONTIST. These professionals are trained to know and understand the gowth and developement of the facial complex.
Tongue habits cause an anterior open bite or they develop secondarily to thumb sucking. In skeletal open bite the tongue habit acts as a secondary factor which helps to maintain or exacerbate the condition. Many orthodontists have had a discouraging experience of completing dental treatment, with what appeared to be good results, only to discover that the case had relapsed because the patient had a tongue thrust swallowing pattern.
Yet another reason for this condition could be a temporomandibular joint disorder (TMJ) where the patient suffers from chronic pain in the jaw and uses his tongue to push the teeth apart so that his jaw can be in a more comfortable position.
Correcting Tongue Thrusting
Skeletal jaw formation
Per Gandy, open bite result of skeletal growth of lower jaw, not tongue thrust.
Expansion needed to widen jaw.
why are jaws too small? why are wisdom teeth not fitting?
The archaeological record shows that our hunter-gatherer ancestors generally didn't have crooked teeth. Humans evolved to have dental arches in proportion to their tooth size, like all animals. Crooked teeth and impacted wisdom teeth are only as old as agriculture.