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What Are Airway Health & Sleep-Disordered Breathing?
Sleep Disordered Breathing is a condition where your child has difficulty breathing when sleeping. This can range from mild snoring/ mouth breathing to obstructive sleep apnea. When this occurs, there is suboptimal oxygen that travels to your child’s brain and it prevents him/ her from experiencing deep, quality, restorative sleep.
Why is your child’s Sleep Quality important?
Because poor quality sleep can negatively affect your child’s brain development and restoration, as well as affect their ability to concentrate/ perform during the day at school.
Sleep-Disordered Breathing Reviews
Common symptoms associated with Sleep-Disordered Breathing:
- Mouth-breathing
- Snoring
- Teeth-grinding
- Bed-wetting (beyond an appropriate age)
- Night Terrors
- Excessive movement during sleep
- Sleeping on their belly with their bum up in the air
- Difficulty regulating their emotions during the day
- Difficulty concentrating at school during the day
How can our team at WindHaven Pediatric Dentistry help?
- Evaluate - we have a screening questionnaire and complete a clinical assessment for your child.
- Multidisciplinary approach - we may refer your child to the ENT or Myofunctional Therapists.
In office treatment modalities - we offer:
- Orthodontic appliances
- MyoMunchee
- Frenectomy
- Somnifix
