Airway DentistryIn Newport Beach
Nobody wants to wake up exhausted from struggling to breathe at night. You may not even know this is happening. We’re right by your side to address the issue by clearing and opening your airway to help you breathe and rest easier.
Why should I choose airway dentistry?
Airway dentistry is a constantly evolving method of focusing on the mechanics of how we breathe, and how compromised jaw joints or nasal passages lead to sleep problems. Our team has an in-depth understanding of the mouth and throat that facilitate airflow. We will work with you to improve your oral muscle function with lifestyle changes and corrective breathing habits. Ultimately, our goal is to address the root of the issue so you can breathe with ease and limit the harmful side effects of sleep-related disorders.
Optimize Your Airway, Improve Your Life
Poor airway function affects your sleep quality, energy levels, and overall wellness. Our airway dentistry services address structural concerns that may be compromising your breathing, helping you sleep better and feel your best.
Better Sleep & Reduced Snoring
Enhanced Oxygen Flow & Energy
Long-Term Health Benefits
The Benefits of Airway Dentistry
Helps you Breathe Easier
Airway Dentistry can help you breathe without restriction. This means less mouth breathing, no snoring, and better rest.
Prevents Further Health Issues
Moderate or even severe airway issues can be improved with minimal treatment. This has the potential to prevent years of not only oral health issues but health conditions that arise from a lack of healthy breathing and sleep.
Can Treat Sleep-Related Disorders
When your airway is clean and properly aligned, the ability to breathe with ease and sleep through the night will significantly improve.
Our Difference
Adult Maxillary Expansion with DOMEzero
Adult Maxillary Expansion with DOMEzero offers a non-surgical way to gently widen the upper jaw and create more room for your tongue, teeth, and airway. By expanding the palate, this treatment can support improved nasal breathing, reduce snoring and sleep-disrupted breathing, and help relieve the tension that comes from a narrow, crowded oral structure. It’s a targeted approach that may transform how you breathe and sleep, while supporting a broader, more balanced smile and better overall wellness.
Sleep Apnea Treatment
Sleep apnea disrupts your breathing throughout the night, leaving you fatigued and compromising your cardiovascular health. Our airway dentistry treatments for sleep apnea focus on opening and stabilizing your airway, reducing breathing interruptions so you experience deeper, uninterrupted sleep. By addressing sleep apnea with precision dental care, you'll wake refreshed with improved energy, mental clarity, and significantly better long-term health outcomes.
TMJ/TMD Treatment
Comprehensive TMJ/TMD treatment addresses the root causes of jaw dysfunction that can restrict your airway and disrupt your sleep. By realigning your bite, relieving muscle tension, and correcting structural imbalances, our TMJ therapy improves your breathing capacity and promotes better oxygen flow throughout the night. This multi-faceted approach can relieve jaw pain and headaches and also enhance your overall sleep quality and airway health for lasting wellness.
Botox
Botox offers a non-invasive solution for TMJ tension and jaw clenching that may be compromising your airway function and sleep quality. By relaxing the overactive muscles around your jaw, Botox reduces tension-related headaches and jaw pain while promoting better airway alignment and breathing. This targeted treatment can transform your sleep, reduce nighttime clenching, and support optimal airway health for better overall wellness.
The Airway Dentistry Treatment Process
Consultation
First, we will have a conversation with you about your overall sleeping habits, breathing patterns, and other symptoms. We’ll also take a look at your medical history and examine your breathing, along with your teeth, gums, mouth, and throat.
Treatment Plan
Depending on your unique condition, we will recommend a personalized airway treatment plan. This could include lifestyle changes, a custom oral appliance worn during sleep, or maxillary expansion to open the airway at its structural level, using advanced systems such as DOMEzero. Regardless of our recommendation, our team will walk you through every step of the plan to make sure you fully understand the process and how it will positively impact your overall health.
Follow-Ups
We will continue to encourage frequent follow-up appointments to ensure your personalized treatment plan is improving your airway health. To guarantee that you receive the best possible care possible, referrals may be made to other providers.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Check out these frequently asked questions, or call us to speak with our team.
It’s underestimated how important airway treatment actually is. Breathing properly will decrease your risk for serious health conditions that arise from sleep-related disorders. With airway dentistry, you are taking the first step in living a healthy lifestyle.
When your airway is impacted, your body sends multiple warning signs. Common obstructive airway symptoms include mouth breathing, snoring, teeth grinding and clenching (bruxism), unexplained broken crowns or fractured teeth, brain fog and chronic fatigue, forward head posture, headaches, face, neck, shoulder, and joint pain, anxiety, and weight gain.
Don't dismiss these symptoms as separate issues—they're often interconnected signs of airway dysfunction. Our team is fully equipped to address your unique situation with personalized care, and we'll partner with specialists when needed to ensure you receive comprehensive treatment and the results you deserve.
Treatment timelines vary depending on the complexity of your case and the type of treatment recommended. During your consultation, we'll provide a personalized treatment plan with realistic expectations for results and duration.
DOMEzero is an advanced, minimally invasive approach to maxillary expansion, which gently widens the upper jaw to create more room for the tongue and improve airflow. For many adults, a narrow upper jaw contributes to airway and breathing concerns, and expansion can help address this at the structural level rather than just managing symptoms. During your consultation, we will evaluate whether maxillary expansion with DOMEzero is a good fit for your airway and your goals.
Yes. Thanks to modern airway-focused techniques like maxillary expansion with DOMEzero, many adults can widen the upper jaw without traditional surgery. This creates more space for the tongue and nasal airway, which can support better breathing and sleep. A consultation and imaging help us determine whether you are a candidate.
