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The umbrella of crooked teeth has
far-reaching health problems, but expansive
airway-focused orthodontics can guide jaw
growth.11 This not only straightens teeth but
also considers facial and airway development.
Childhood dental development can now
be guided by a team right from birth. This
includes lactation consultants, dentists, myofunctional therapists, airway orthodontics,
sleep physicians and ENTs. Functional oral
health has helped us see crooked teeth are
not inevitable.
"Crooked teeth are a solution
for a complex system to
remain in homeostasis even
when some of its components
are imbalanced. When you're
building a house, you start
by building the foundation,
then the roof, and so on. The
last thing you work on is the
interior-which is the teeth."
- Dr. Dave Singh
Searching for the 'yolk'
The fluid model of jaw and facial growth
digs deeper into how crooked teeth occur.
But it doesn't answer why.
This is where Price was well ahead of his
time-he had found the why. Now we need
to connect his theory to what science has
since revealed. Anthropologists including
Robert Corruccini have confirmed that
malocclusion is linked directly to historical
changes to the human diet.12 The human
fossil simply lacks crooked teeth before
farming and industry.
An evolutionary, ancestral perspective is
an important missing piece of the puzzle. It
also helps us to dig past the egg white layer.
In modern day, it may be that neonatal
jaws are failing to develop in the womb when
the fetus goes through 3-D skull growth.13,14
Pregnant women have a higher risk of sleep
apnea,16 and a mother with crooked teeth
may deliver less oxygen to her child. We
know the relationship between low oxygen
and fetal growth. This could be similar to
smoking during pregnancy, which curbs
fetal growth.15 Mothers with small jaws may
have kids with small jaws. But why didn't
the jaw grow in the first place?
Malocclusion is linked to a major change
in our food supply. The cranial and jaw
development problems I see are linked to
our diet. Price had figured this out-his
theory is our yolk.
Throughout human history, a typical
diet delivered foods rich in the fat-soluble
vitamins A, D and K 2. Today, these vitamins
are sadly lacking from the modern diet.
Vitamin D deficiency has been dubbed a
global pandemic.17 Price's work inspired me
to begin testing all my patients with tooth
decay, gum disease and malocclusion; all
were insufficient, and some were deficient
in vitamin D.
Price also noted the importance of
prepregnancy nutrition. Vitamin D intake
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