At Eastern Suburbs Orthodontics, we offer a holistic approach to early treatment in children with a focus on airways and facial development. It is our aim to provide growing patients with the most beneficial treatment at the ideal time.
Early Orthodontic Treatment in Bondi
We recommend an assessment of your child by our specialist orthodontist from the age of eight years before all adult teeth have emerged. It is at this age in children that the facial template for adulthood can be determined.
Early orthodontic treatment can have significant physical and psychological benefits for growing patients. The aim of treatment is to balance the facial structure during growth and to improve the quality of sleep.
Contributing factors to poor sleep quality include:
- narrow upper jaw and airway
- set back upper or lower jaw
- tooth grinding
- snoring
- mouth breathing
- sinusitis
These factors affect growth and cognitive development (learning, thinking and memory) and can contribute to attention deficit, behavioural and learning difficulties.
Early treatment removes the physical and biological barriers of breathing, which improves sleep quality, facial structure and enables children to reach their genetic growth potential. If treatment during the growth period is not performed, treatment in adulthood may be compromised or require invasive surgical procedures.
Generally, early treatment is performed with a plate to treat the face in primary school and braces to treat the teeth in late primary or early high school.
The benefit of early intervention in growing children is an improvement in sleep quality, cognitive, facial and dental development which produces favourable and predictable outcomes.
