Posted by: Knoppe
« on: January 03, 2014, 01:45:55 am »I'm with Walrus on this. Facepulling and NCR seems more like straightening/re-aligning cranial bones like putting preassure in a crushed beer can. Palate expansion through appliances or braces will grow new bone if done slowly. It takes time for new bone to grow.
About aligning the bite. I have a hard time seeing how facepulling or NCR can affect the dental arches. If suffering from an over jet (meaning that the upper teeth are flared out, forward) bracers seem like the way to go. Self litigating ones where the dental arch is developed outwards, that is.
I belive that the methods are great compliments to eachother. That's why practitioners have begun working together. Release of the connective tissue with NCR helps bracers/expansion plates to do their job properly.
If one has narrow dental arches (v-shaped instead of u-shaped) then orthodontic treatment will solve this. Note. NONE extraction, self litigating and outward moving of the teeth. As Walrus says, this has to be done in a slow fashion to avoid tiping of the teeth and to promote bone growth.
Check CP:s blog out. He mentions that he has to wear his applience 24/7 for the suture not to close up since he's done aggressive expansion of the palatte. The theory is that expansion will cement itself after a while.
I also belive, seeing as I'm a bit fan of Dr.Weston E Price's work, that nutrition is a key component in facial restructuring to optimize new bone growth and keeping the connective tissue healthy. I just don't know what protocol to follow yet. For now, I'm following a Ray Peatish style of eating. Just need to work up the nerve to push through my disdain for eating liver.
About aligning the bite. I have a hard time seeing how facepulling or NCR can affect the dental arches. If suffering from an over jet (meaning that the upper teeth are flared out, forward) bracers seem like the way to go. Self litigating ones where the dental arch is developed outwards, that is.
I belive that the methods are great compliments to eachother. That's why practitioners have begun working together. Release of the connective tissue with NCR helps bracers/expansion plates to do their job properly.
If one has narrow dental arches (v-shaped instead of u-shaped) then orthodontic treatment will solve this. Note. NONE extraction, self litigating and outward moving of the teeth. As Walrus says, this has to be done in a slow fashion to avoid tiping of the teeth and to promote bone growth.
Check CP:s blog out. He mentions that he has to wear his applience 24/7 for the suture not to close up since he's done aggressive expansion of the palatte. The theory is that expansion will cement itself after a while.
I also belive, seeing as I'm a bit fan of Dr.Weston E Price's work, that nutrition is a key component in facial restructuring to optimize new bone growth and keeping the connective tissue healthy. I just don't know what protocol to follow yet. For now, I'm following a Ray Peatish style of eating. Just need to work up the nerve to push through my disdain for eating liver.