Author Topic: Could you please give advice to a Doctor trying to perfect maxillary protraction  (Read 10161 times)

Gaia

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I just read that Dr. Howell suggests that you only wear dental appliances such as the Homeoblock for 5-7 minutes a day.

http://www.cheeseslave.com/q-a-october-28-2012/

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He says, for most people, the maximum amount of time to wear any dental appliance is somewhere around 5-7 minutes per day. He says that that most dentai/orthopedic appliances such as braces, head gear and palate expanders don’t work because people wear them for too long. If you put your body under stress, your body kicks into the sympathetic mode and builds scar tissue instead of bone. It can only build bone in the parasympathetic mode.

That just sounds crazy to me, but hey, who knows...